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This week, students and engineers from around the world will descend on Southern California for two days of good old-fashioned robot mayhem.

Particle collisions at record energies will push the boundary of human knowledge --

Check out this graphical guide to the science ahead at the LHC in Europe --

Next season's flu shot will contain two new flu strains not present in last season's shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Control emissions, save the world.

Each smaller than a thumbnail, seven new species of frog have been discovered in the cloud forests of Brazil. Some have warty coverings while others are smooth with spots.

A lot of problems associated with the mixing of the liquid in the microchannels could be solved via proper organization of the inhomogeneous slip on the walls of these channels. This is the conclusion of a joint group of...

NASA's InSight mission may be able to use seismic waves from meteorite strikes to probe the Red Planet's interior

Here's what we know so far about the FBI's surveillance-ready aviation program.

The bristly, sex-crazed antechinus has two previously unknown species in its family, a new study finds.

A research team from Queensland University of Technology captured the antechinus in its natural Australian habitat. Threatened species listing is pending by the state.

The global warming hiatus -- a decade-plus slowdown in warming -- could be chalked up to some buoys, a few extra years of data and a couple buckets of seawater.

Forget about yoghurt. We're engineering bugs that will patrol our guts and take out pathogens (full text available to subscribers)

Ric Edelman is one the top financial advisors in the US. His firm, Edelman Financial Services, has 41 offices across the country. And he thinks, all things constant, most financial...

About 70 million years ago, a bizarre-looking relative of Triceratops with a crownlike frill, tall nose horn and tiny eye horns tread over the ancient landscape of southeastern Alberta, a new study finds.

"Yummy...PLACENTA pills!" Kourtney Kardashian wrote in a recent Instagram post. But is eating the placenta a good idea?

They are some of the smallest vertebrates on land, but seven species discovered in cloud forests in Brazil could already be under threat from climate change

Every centimetre matters for cute little dwarf mongooses: if they get their bottoms high in the air, other mongooses might take them seriously

A process that wipes egg and sperm cells clean misses some genes out, explaining how your bad habits may affect the DNA of your children and grandchildren

Fake DNA letters designed in the lab can be coaxed to bind only to cancer cells. This means we could home in on the tumour cells and kill them

The movie, which premieres in September 2015, is a dramatization of the 1996 mountain climbing disaster on Mount Everest. Its based on the best-selling book "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster"...

A cool science project from Science Buddies --