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The concept of walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage water's surface tension to maneuver themselves around. One of the most complex ...

Getting people to pay attention to a huge, global problem is easier when you have an enormous billboard at your disposal.

Earth's magnetic field, which protects the planet from harmful blasts of solar radiation, is much older than scientists had previously thought, researchers say.

Marijuana may help bone fractures heal, a new study in animal suggests.

The concept of walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage water's surface tension to maneuver themselves around. One of the most complex ...

The days of using pen and paper to keep track of menstrual cycles are past -- apps for period tracking have proliferated. Here are our picks for the best period-tracking apps.

In an effort to improve materials used in aviation and medicine, a team of Irish researchers is studying the legs of certain insects. Some features that appear to contribute to the legs' sturdiness don't actually do so, ...

An emerging infectious fungus that causes salamanders to die in droves could soon land on North American shores, scientists warn.

Scientists have long worked to understand how crystals grow into complex shapes. Crystals are important in materials from skeletons and shells to soils and semiconductor materials, but much is unknown about how they form...

Earth needed its magnetic field to protect the nascent atmosphere - but when did the field turn on? Magnetic rocks show it was earlier than we thought

About one in every five Americans reports having a disability, according to results from a new nationwide survey.

Money from sports-hunting permits can fund protected parks that shelter wildlife and engage local communities in animal protection, but does paying such exorbitant fees actually help or hurt wildlife conservation?

In so many words is where we retell our stories on space and physics using only the 1000 commonest words in English

If every home has a drone, then every home will serve as an airport - and that will need a new kind of air traffic control

The unusual creatures of Antarctica's Southern Ocean are all legs and no body, with a long proboscis to suck up their soft-bodied prey, such as jellyfish

People sure are abuzz about bitcoin -- after all, it's not every day that a new currency pops on the scene. But the buzz has more to do with what you can...

ANY sufficiently advanced technology, as Arthur C. Clarke once observed, is indistinguishable from magic. And one that seems routinely to be ascribed magical properties is graphene. It has been proposed for the manufactu...

COMPUTING has always been a youngster's game. The founders of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft were in their teens or 20s when they started the businesses that made their fortunes. But even by the standards of Messr...

"IT CAN be kind of addictive," says Emily Stark, a Californian engineer who started looking for bugs in websites in her evenings after work. "There's a lot of low-hanging fruit out there." There are also a lot of Emily S...

This picture of Pluto's atmosphere, backlit by the sun, is a Parthian shot of the place taken on July 15th (but transmitted to Earth a week later) by New Horizons, NASA's probe to the dwarf planet. It is a last, backward...

A pressurized science project from Science Buddies --

Scientists shook "bricks" in a spinning chamber, and for the first time, showed that artificial building blocks can put themselves together just by banging around at random.