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It's possible that people could spread Ebola many months after they have recovered from the deadly viral disease, a new study suggests.

These two closely related forces describe circular motion, but the meanings are often mixed up.

If sauropod dinosaurs cracked their tails like whips to deter competitors, here is how they might have worked

Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver this sensory input directly to a living brain cell.

Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP for short, is the universal currency of energy among living things. It's the gasoline that drives our cellular motors, the necessary intermediate step between chemical and kinetic energy. B...

Researchers studying areas of eastern Antarctica where snow is often stripped off the surface by wind, recently found that powerful gusts are actually vaporizing massive amounts of snow, rather than blowing and redistrib...

People who live hunter-gatherer societies in rural Africa and South America actually get less sleep than people who live in modernized, industrial societies, a new study finds.

The King James Bible, the most widely read book in the English language is as storied as it is elusive. Now, a historian claims to have found the oldest known draft of the Christian text in an obscure archive at the Univ...

Some plants include caffeine in their nectar, tricking bees into encouraging their nest-mates to visit the plant with enthusiastic dances

A strong El Niño is brewing in the Pacific, which should bring warmer and wetter weather across the Southern and Eastern United States.

When a man in Missouri contracted rabies, his symptoms mimicked those of a serious drug reaction, making it hard for doctors to figure out the real cause of his illness until it was too late.

Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports virtually all life on Earth. In that time, the process has achieved almost 100 percent efficiency in transporting the ener...

TRANSPLANTING organs brings life to the dying. But most donor organs are harvested from the dead. Shortfalls in the number of volunteer donors, the difficulty of gaining the consent of grieving relatives, and a reduction...

GARTNER, an American consultancy, has a simple yet elegant way of describing the life of a promising new technology. First, it is talked up to a peak of inflated expectations. Then it falls into a trough of disillusionme...

Habib Frost, Medical Innovator & Entrepreneur Copenhagen, Denmark Like the swinging of a pendulum, the mind of an inventor is often inspired by the voice of the critic; a filter...

Emerging technologies like synthetic meat, GMOs, and robotic farms provide a glimpse of a coming era in which technology solves the world's food problems. But some sobering statistics from the World Food Programme frame ...

Physicist Jennifer Gimmell shares her love of physics with her students. While she was earning her PhD in particle physics, Jennifer Gimmell spent her time developing data analyses. Now she spends her days developing the...

Wearable sensors could one day interpret the gestures in sign language and translate them into English, providing a high-tech solution to communication problems between deaf people and those who don't understand sign lan...

A mysterious swirl of objects spotted around a distant star has captured the interest of astronomers who look for advanced alien civilizations.

Physicist Jennifer Gimmell shares her love of physics with her students. While she was earning her PhD in particle physics, Jennifer Gimmell spent her time developing data analyses. Now she spends her days developing the...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers with Technische Universität Darmstadt, in Germany and an associate with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada has detected, for the first time, the double gamma decay of a nuclear qu...

Researchers have long known and well-documented how dye disperses when injected into a fluid flowing through a pipe.