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Twenty-six is old ... if you're a cat.

A woman in Oklahoma who contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever from a tick bite recently needed to have all four of her limbs amputated as a result of her infection. But exactly how does this disease cause such a severe...

Scientists recently teamed up to help solve a World War II-era mystery.

Cybercrime knows no borders -- neither should the effort to fight it.

People perceive the color yellow differently in summer versus winter, perhaps because the difference in foliage requires a different color balance in the eye.

A lot of things, it turns out. But the one you'd probably least expect? Waste from a non-nuclear power plant, by a factor of 100. Would we feel different about fossil fuels if this warning were mandatory on coal-fired p...

3D-printed widgets are taking the medical world by storm. Polymer-based skull implants? Check. Doughnut-shaped Tylenol pills? Check. Totally rad-looking prosthetic arms with a $150 price tag? Check again. These, and...

Electric shock training and surgery are starting to pay off for the teams fighting to save one of the world's largest birds

For all the enthusiasm about virtual reality, there are still plenty of unsolved challenges -- technical issues, cultural worries, and questions about market fit and timing. The articles below tackle these issues...

Campaigns to name exoplanets seem like Shakespearean farce --

A 1570 earthquake in Italy shifted the Po River's right bank upward by several inches, forcing the river to change course.

Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the TU München have developed a method using laser-generated X-rays and phase-contrast X-ray tomography to produce three-di...

The dead bodies of plankton cover a surprising amount of the ocean floor, according to the first digital map of global seafloor composition.

Professional sports coaches rely on good data and good intuition, but increasingly they are also getting help from computers

Your gender might affect how you experience a broken heart.

Franz-Josef Ulm works on big issues such as concrete manufacturing, urban architecture, and gas shale recovery. All involve "the physics of what many consider dirty materials and messy systems," he says. His intent is to...

Blind mice with destroyed retinas ran away from a swooping owl after treatment reprogrammed different cells in their eyes to detect light

When Prof. Juan de Pablo and his collaborators set about to explain unusual peaks in what should have been featureless optical data, they thought there was a problem in their calculations. In fact, what they were seeing ...

The work, published in Nature, was carried out using CERN's Antiproton Decelerator, a device that provides low-energy antiprotons for antimatter studies.

This year's El Niño looks to rank among the strongest on record, with potential U.S. weather impacts.

Coral reefs are key to wildlife, and human, survival -- and they may yet be saved.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) See and be seen. In the elaborate game of seeking and attracting a mate, male anole lizards have a special trick -- they grab attention by perching on a tree limb, bobbing their heads up...