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A baffling new mystery has turned up on Mercury -- a pattern of giant cliffs and ridges on the planet's surface that defies any explanation that scientists have currently been able to offer.

The smooth blue sphere of the National Ignition Facility's (NIF) target chamber bristles with diagnostics--nuclear, optical and X-ray instruments that together provide some 300 channels for experimental data. These diagn...

A new app could help put people who need CPR in touch with people who know how to do CPR.

After spending more than 90 years in the sandy dunes of Guadalupe, California, a majestic plaster Hollywood sphinx, created for the 1923 blockbuster silent film "The Ten Commandments," is making its 21st century debut.

A plaster sphinx, more than 90 years old and weathered by the elements, will make its 21st-century debut at a museum in Guadalupe, California, tomorrow (June 12).

While most people know the signs of drowning, they don't understand that drowning can have a delayed response that occurs once someone is on dry land.

A cleverly designed pipe that uses water's own energy to fight gravity could be used in miniaturised disease labs

Improve your memory, overcome a phobia or unlearn a bad habit - while you slumber. It sounds too good to be true, but new work suggests there might be a way (full text available to subscribers)

About 1 per cent of people with HIV can suppress the virus without drugs, perhaps because a part of their immune system mounts an effective last-ditch response

After a painstaking search, Rosetta mission managers have ruled out four of five possible landing sites - but that doesn't mean Philae is really there

Men outnumbered women 10 to 1 in the early Seventies, but today that gap has closed to two to one.

Hundreds of thousands of low-rise concrete buildings in the U.S. have not been retrofitted for earthquake safety.

Children with ADHD focus better when they are fidgeting. Rather than telling them to stop, is it time to let them squirm in class?

It's not just insect rodeos they're useful for. Miniature tentacles that can grasp tiny, delicate objects could be a boon to scaled-down surgery

For fans of flesh-and-blood feats of strength and agility, last weekend was heaven. Added to the NHL playoffs and NBA finals, race horse American Pharoah took the Triple Crown for the...

A civil engineering project from Science Buddies --

IN A recently opened laboratory just north of London, an experiment is under way to discover how the liver will respond to an new drug. Normally such a test would be carried out on liver cells cultured in rows of dishes ...

Looking healthy WHETHER or not eyes are windows to the soul, they can provide a view of a person's health. Eye problems are not the only things to show up; recent studies indicate that eyes can also reveal the presence o...

THE BRIGHT red robot lay sprawled across the threshold, seemingly unable to go on. Chimp, built by Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Centre (NREC), had successfully driven a car down a short simp...

Tiny soft robotic tentacles might be ideal for delicate microscopic surgery, say researchers who were able to use the teensy "limbs" to pick up an ant without damaging its body.

The kraken-like colossal squid's life is shrouded in mystery, but now we know it has a vicious nemesis that may also be its main prey

Google Trends tracks the popularity of a search term over time and throughout the world. Type in the word "dog" and you get back a whole set of graphs, charts, and maps that show that the English-speaking world really lo...