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Don't unfriend just yet - Facebook is stepping in to mediate online confrontations by making an emotionally intelligent response the easiest thing to do (full text available to subscribers)

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A century ago, Albert Einstein postulated the existence of gravitational waves in his General Theory of Relativity. But until now, these distortions of space-time have remained stubbornly hidden from direct observation. ...

The increasing inequality in income and wealth in recent years, together with excessive pay packages of CEOs in the U.S. and abroad, is of growing concern, especially to policy makers. Income inequality was identified as...

Overdoing the alcohol can take a serious toll on your health, but there a few clever ways to help you feel better, faster (full text available to subscribers)

Phonons--the elemental particles that transmit both heat and sound--have magnetic properties, according to a landmark study supported by Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) services and recently published by a researcher gro...

The number of new cancer cases worldwide is on the rise, according to a new report that looked at cancer cases in 118 countries.

In a feat that calls to mind the memory-tweaking technology in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a team of researchers restored "lost memories" in the brains of mice.

Your budgie isn't bored, it just finds yawning as contagious as you do. These common pets are the first non-mammals in which yawning has been caught spreading

Traces of "forgotten" memories lurk in the brain and can be revived with the right tools - raising hopes of new ways to help people with Alzheimer's or amnesia

Putting a hole in the center of the donut--a mid-nineteenth-century invention--allows the deep-fried pastry to cook evenly, inside and out. As it turns out, the hole in the center of the donut also holds answers for a ty...

Two volcanic islands that were recently born in the Red Sea are providing scientists with new information about a little-known rift in Earth's crust.

If you've ever watched a child trying to fit a shape into a cut-out, you might get a flash of déj vu in the following robot video. It takes some...

NASA's InSight rover is being put through its paces in preparation for its trip to Mars next year

The major gateway for modern humans out of Africa may have been Egypt, a new genetic analysis suggests. This finding may help scientists reconstruct how humans evolved as they wandered across the globe.

They may be child's play, but some serious physics makes them bounce so well.Originally published: May 22 2015 - 11:00am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Joel N. Shurkin, Contributor(Inside Science) -- Super Balls are toy...

Fermilab physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter. Much of the complexity of particle physics experiments can be boiled down to two basic types of detectors...

The Thirty Meter Telescope can revolutionize astronomy and become a part of the holy mountain’s rich cultural heritage --

Male wolf spiders use "purring" vibrations to serenade their sweethearts, but this wooing only works if the females can feel these vibrations, new research finds.

Male wolf spiders (Gladicosa gulosa) use vibration to communicate. Unlike other wolf spider species, they create airborne sounds that are audible, but females can only "hear" the vibrations when they resonate on a dry le...

A paralysis-inducing wasp, a color-changing toad and a bat with eerily long teeth -- what do all of these critters have in common?

The bright lights from these hungry black holes revealed a subtle background field --