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A bacterial infection may lead to the loss of a limb for an NFL player.

While today is federally recognized as Columbus Day, that name has become controversial in recent years, as public awareness grows that its namesake and his crew did some absolutely abominable things to the people who li...

From a pair of handcuffs to a tennis racquet, supercoiled DNA takes on crazy, fantastical shapes, new research reveals.

I consider Ray Kurzweil a very close friend and a very smart person. Ray is a brilliant technologist, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google focused on AI and language...

Some 10 million Americans' homes will be submerged by rising seas, even under optimistic scenarios for slashing greenhouse gas emissions

CubeSats built from off-the-shelf parts can transform space exploration, as long as we can steer them. An ionic liquid propulsion system is a big step forward

Starting in January, 20-week-old fetuses with brittle bone disease will be given transplants of stem cells in the first clinical trial of its kind

(Phys.org)--A lot of attention has been given to the differences between the quantum and classical worlds. For example, quantum entanglement, superposition, and teleportation are purely quantum phenomena with no classica...

A new method of making packets of light that don't echo inside optical fibres could be used to improve everything from medical imaging to laser comms

X Prize, an organization that fosters innovation through incentivized competition, has thrown down the gauntlet by announcing their newest completion challenging innovators to find a way to turn CO2 into a valuable produ...

A new computer simulation has reconstructed the brain cell firing of a tiny sliver of the juvenile rat brain's neocortex.

A new computer simulation has reconstructed the brain cell firing of a tiny sliver of the juvenile rat brain's neocortex.

The tomb complex contains three burial chambers where archaeologists found human remains as well as jewelry, figurines, weapons and 16 drinking vessels used to serve people attending a "symposium."

Astronomer Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, has been found to have violated his institution's sexual harassment policy during a series of incidents

An international group of physicists has traced the origin of an electromagnetic interaction to the Dirac equation, a fundamental equation of quantum physics.

More children with mental health conditions are being treated by their pediatricians than by psychiatrists or psychologists, a new study reports.

(University of Hawaii Cancer Center) The University of Hawai'i Cancer Center has been awarded a five-year $5.5 million to support its ongoing partnership with the University of Guam, addressing cancer health disparities ...

(European Commission Joint Research Centre) Estimated electricity production from the total waste generated in Africa could reach 122.2 TWh in 2025, or more than 20 percent of the electricity consumed in 2010 at continen...

(Institute of Physics) Meteorologists at the University of Reading, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and Environment Canada found that by taking account of changing winds in the stratosphere, forecaster...

(Society for Neuroscience) The Society for Neuroscience will award the Julius Axelrod Prize to Pietro De Camilli, M.D., of Yale University. The Julius Axelrod Prize recognizes exceptional achievements in neuropharmacolog...

(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) New research published today projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf colla...

(Geological Society of America) Catastrophic floods in 2011 in Vermont and 2013 in Colorado devastated many communities. While flood waters were the highest in recorded history, much of the damage done by these floods wa...