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Your eye color may be linked with your risk of developing alcohol dependence, a new study finds.

The NMI3 Imaging JRA discusses how to produce smaller beams. They conclude that reflective optics offers the most versatile way to produce them.

(The Optical Society) Researchers from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and the University of Eastern Finland have harnessed the human eye's color-sensing strengths to give the eye the ability to distinguish between...

People age at different rates, and now, a new study finds that people's tendency to age more slowly or quickly than their contemporaries is evident in healthy people as young as their 30s.

Traditional industrial robots are rigid -- mostly metal -- and are fast, precise and powerful. Their speed and precision comes at the cost of complexity and can often pose a danger to humans who get too close. Soft robot...

The end isn't exactly night, but in a couple of billion years, continental crusts could erode, making the land sink under the oceans

Giant pandas have an insatiable hankering for bamboo, but scientists have long wondered how the bears survive on such a fibrous and low-nutrient plant.

Diagnostic apps, wearables and bedside devices are about to go mainstream - but will they empty the doctor's waiting room, or send people stampeding to it? (full text available to subscribers)

Climate change is making more southerly locales too hot for bumblebees to survive, but they are not spreading north as the climate warms. That could spell trouble for many crops, which require the pollinators to produce ...

Bumblebees are disappearing from their more southern locations, but are not expanding northward.

The rock of the Campi Flegrei Caldera, west of Naples, Italy, has an intricate network of mineral fibers—just like the famed Roman concrete. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

Despite being unable to survive the rising heat in the south, bumblebees in America and Europe are mysteriously failing to shift north to compensate

Selecting which of its three pneumatic legs fire, this gizmo can point itself in the direction it wants to go

Didn't eat enough fruits and vegetables today? Join the club -- 87 percent of Americans don't meet recommendations for fruit consumption, and 91 percent don't meet recommendations for vegetable consumption.

Pitcher plants that "eat" bat poop have come up with a unique way to attract their meal tickets, new research finds: The plants are shaped to stand out against a bat's echolocation cries.

Young offenders are less likely to be violent in future if they take a computer course that teaches them to spot fear, anger and sadness in others' faces

A new image of the sun combines three views to reveal its activity in a new light

The Pitcher plant (N. hemsleyana) structure reflects ultrasonic calls from insectivorous bats (Kerivoula hardwicki) and "relatively cool place to roost." The bats leave dropping behind providing a fertilizer for the plan...

Last week, we told you about a new web series called Ask an Expert. Well, Episode 1 is finally here and it's all about ENERGY! In its debut, questions about energy that...

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Bushwillow: tree of enlightenment AS A cell prepares to divide, tiny parts of its internal skeleton, known as microtubules, arrange themselves into a spindle that permits its complement of chromosomes to split into two b...

ALL good things come to an end. And July 14th will see the finale of the Heroic Age of space exploration. On that day a visitor from Earth will fly past Pluto and head off into the Kuiper belt--the icy, rubble-strewn fri...