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Former CERN scientist offers an inside look at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as it awakens from a two-year slumber --

For a California woman with cervical cancer, a body scan seemed to show that her cancer had spread. It was only after surgery that they realized the real reason for the findings.

Researchers have found new links between the month of your birth and your risk of getting certain diseases.

MERS is on the loose in South Korea. The characteristics of the virus suggest it is unlikely to spread around the world like SARS did – but the alternative isn't great either

A new sensor based on particles whizzing along optical fibres could monitor temperature and radiation in dangerous environments

What's cuter than a baby deer? A baby deer you can hold in the palm of your hand, of course.

How much Cersei do you have in you? Standard psychology tests have been overlooking a crucial aspect of our personalities

Here's a story about how humanity is seemingly hellbent on creating sword-wielding robots. Shocking? Yes, but the video evidence chronicles our repeated efforts to do just that. Like a father trying to...

Everyone's talking about The Martian, a nerdy novel (and soon-to-be film) about a stranded astronaut's self-reliance on Mars. The story is a whirlwind of adventure and its science is spot on. Unlike your typical superher...

There has been a significant increase in traumatic spinal cord injuries in older adults in the U.S., according to a new study.

Materials melt faster when the lines of heat spread through the cold material like the branches of a tree--and the melting rate can be steadily increased by allowing the tree architecture to freely evolve over time, rese...

Surprise discovery of bird-like blood cells in dinosaur bones suggests that fleshy remains might be commonplace even in poorly preserved fossils

Photoinduced chemical reactions are responsible for many fundamental processes and technologies, from energy conversion in nature to micro fabrication by photo-lithography. One process that is known from everyday's life ...

One potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energ...

The 1.2 million photos taken by remote cameras in Serengeti National Park may be cute, but they're also valuable for science. Researchers hope to use the photos to answer questions on how animals interact with their ecos...

Motion-triggered cameras helped to capture more than 320,000 photos of wild animals living in the Serengeti in Tanzania.

Want to see a cheetah about to pounce? Thousands of candid camera trap photos from the reserve can now be accessed online

The proposed Hyper-K experiment would dwarf its predecessor. In 1998, the Super-K detector in Japan revealed that ubiquitous, almost massless particles called neutrinos have the ability to morph from one type to another....

Computer simulations exploring the effects of shock waves on crystalline HMX, performed by Ryan Austin, a staff scientist in Engineering's Computational Engineering Division, and a team of LLNL researchers, are featured ...

The rate of marijuana exposure in young children increased significantly from 2003 to 2013.

Ladies with low libido could soon get their own version of the "little blue pill," but this cure for what ails a woman's mojo might not work.

Optics, a form of data transmission that utilizes beams of light, has the promise to outperform the beams of electrons that drive your computer or smartphone. Engineers have long sought a way to miniaturize optical techn...