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Deep in the Red Sea, beyond the reach of most scuba divers, coral reefs are putting on a glowing, colorful show, scientists have discovered.

It's no secret that airports are hubs for germs, but one Minnesota man was particularly unlucky during his travels -- he appears to have caught measles simply by passing a sick child while exiting his plane.

In newborn babies just a few days old, the ability to pay attention may be apparent, new research finds.

Heritage livestock breeds are going extinct at the rate of one species per month. In a 20-year project to cryopreserve genetic material from endangered North American breeds, SVF Foundation aims to insure against potenti...

A new route to ultrahigh density, ultracompact integrated photonic circuitry has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley...

Research led by Michigan State University could someday lead to the development of new and improved semiconductors.

There are apps that make cooking at home a breeze, with the ability to import recipes and organize your grocery list. Here are Live Science's picks for the best cooking apps.

As the US industrialised in the early 1900s, life insurers hunted data on everyday citizens as never before - with unintended consequences, says a new book

Due to a "gradual slow down" of the Earth's rotation a 'leap second' has been added to June 30th. Scientists use a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to measure how long it takes the Earth to make ...

Ever wonder what might happen if a python ate a porcupine? Well, wonder no more. One of these giant snakes -- which kill prey by suffocating it and then consuming it whole -- recently dined on a porcupine and didn't live...

Ever wonder what might happen if a python ate a porcupine?

Image credit:mouse: Baggie Bird 1 ://bit.ly/1LpXV9T, compass: wikimedia commons  ://bit.ly/1H9va0c, illustration by Michael Greshko Quantum mechanics governs the quirky, counter-intuitive way the world works at the smal...

In a paper that crystalizes knowledge from a variety of experiments and theoretical developments, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have demonstrated that the quantum spin Hall effect-...

A woman's sex life and her heart rate may be linked, a new study finds.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials and their behavior using only a handful of helium ions.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials and their behavior using only a handful of helium ions.

Despite searing radiation at the Milky Way's core, water and hydrocarbon ice are clinging on – probably thanks to sheltering dust grains

The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a billion years earlier than geoscientists had suspected for the emergence of a good chunk o...

Electrical engineers have broken key barriers that limit the distance information can travel in fiber optic cables and still be accurately deciphered by a receiver. Photonics researchers at the University of California, ...

By observing ripples of X-rays bouncing off dust around a remote binary star, astronomers have solved a puzzle over its distance

Same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states, but the dramatic change is the result of incremental legal and social changes over the last hundred years.

Coral reefs that glow in an impressive array of fluorescent colors were discovered in the Red Sea.