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Tropical Storm Bill lurks menacingly near the coast of Texas in a photo taken from space yesterday (June 15).

The incredible energy unleashed by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25 moved Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, more than an inch to the southwest.

Starfish have a unique trick literally up their sleeve - they can eject foreign bodies from their arms

(INRS) Professor Patrizio Antici of the Energy Materials Telecommunications Research Centre has been elected Fellow of the European Physical Society for his outstanding contribution to physics. This is the first time an ...

Fancy getting rid of your keyboard? Speech recognition software has vastly improved and now the dream is that computers will divine and anticipate our needs (full text available to subscribers)

Even as a new rule will force food companies to stop adding trans fat to food, research continues to show the negative effects of trans fat on health.

Love social media? It may be making you individually dumber. Research into wasp brains shows that central cognitive processing decreased as social behavior increased.

Forged in the furnace of the infant universe, they're invisible, huge and may make up the missing dark matter in the universe. So how do we catch these beasts? (full text available to subscribers)

Photos from a search expedition to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

As injured moon jellies (Aurelia aurita) swim, their dynamic body pulsations will drive remaining legs into a symmetrical configuration. Such 'symmetrization' is a never-before seen self-repair strategy.

Knowing how our bodies and brains control appetite is allowing the creation of more satisfying diet meals - and could help people make better food choices (full text available to subscribers)

Visiting Singularity University (SU) for the first time, social entrepreneur and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said he wasn't sure what to expect. But on meeting this year's Graduate Studies Program...

A pair of unrelated asteroids. That's not supposed to happen. What on earth skewed their orbits, and plunged us into ice age?

West Virginia has the highest rate of death from injuries, such as those sustained in car crashes, falls, fires and drug overdoses, while New York has the lowest rate, according to a new report

You know you should wear sunscreen, but do you know what to look for in a sunscreen?

The bizarre case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane, Washington, woman who was passing as black, highlights confusion over ethnic and racial identity, experts said.

In a move that gives hope to African's LGBT community, a leading academic group has published a report on human sexual diversity that criticises discrimination

Reaching a a maximum throat temperature of 1253°C, an additively manufactured combustion camber and nozzle by Airbus Defence & Space survived 618 ignitions, a total operation time of over an hour and one continuous 32 m...

Once a contradiction in terms, aperiodic crystals show instead that "long-range order" has never been defined. Whatever it means, decades of intense research have shown it to be more complex and surprising than anyone su...

Cinzia Fantinati of the European Space Agency explains how they will get Philae to do science, and how the Rosetta mothership will end its mission

The dynamic field of medical laser applications continually offers new systems and techniques enabling less invasive or more targeted treatments. But the path from the lab to the clinic can be slowed by "a multiplicity o...

(Phys.org)--When it comes to flying projectiles, the badminton shuttlecock or "birdie" is unusual in that it flips on impact with a racket so that it always flies cork-first. This flipping motion arises from the fact tha...