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A mega shark that lived 300 million years ago would have made today's great whites look like shrimps, according to fossils of the beast unearthed in Jacksboro, Texas.

A World War-II era tank was recently sold at auction to a private bidder for $155,000.

We are all familiar with boiling a pot of water--flame from a stove heats the base of a metal pot, the metal transfers the heat to the water, and the temperature goes up and up until the water boils. Professor Shalabh Ma...

A case of skin lesions led to the diagnosis of an incredibly rare genetic disorder.

Biochemists at Oregon State University have made a fundamental discovery about protein structure that sheds new light on how proteins fold, which is one of the most basic processes of life.

The former NBA star took 10 "herbal Viagra" supplements in the days before he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel.

Harbor seals have an amazingly fine-tuned sense for detecting prey, as marine biologists have noted for years. Even when blindfolded, trained seals are able to chase the precise path of an object that swam by 30 seconds ...

A new federal report argues that gay conversion therapy shouldn't be offered to minors, because there's no evidence it works and some evidence it is harmful.

For most slave-making ants the pillage is a messy affair involving fights. But one ant species has figured out how to con others into becoming their slaves

Will a computer ever be conscious?

"Doing is the best type of thinking." - Tom Chi Tom Chi, CPO and head of X at Factory, is largely known for his work creating Google Glass, but arguably...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest fly-by of the north pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus - and saw a world covered in craters and cracks

The large and bulbous teeth of an early reptile likely helped it crunch beetles and other hard-shelled invertebrates about 290 million years ago, a new study finds.

A vintage Apple-1 computer and a German Enigma machine are two of the items up for sale.

Some bigger news recently, though anticipated for a few months, was Tesla's release of a highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year. Tesla's offering is not too different...

A new plastic full of special salts that fight bacteria could be the stuff of dentures in the future

The sun has sprung a leak: A hole in the topmost layer of the sun and its magnetic field, the size of 50 Earths, is letting loose an ultrafast solar wind that has kicked off several nights of auroras down on Earth.

The mother of all Macs and a Nazi cipher machine are just two of the cool things to be auctioned off in the science-themed sale.

News that former NFL player Adrian Robinson, who killed himself in May, had CTE, raises additional questions about the degenerative brain disease

Physicists from France and Russia have discovered magnetic disturbances in two-dimensional (2D) layered superconductors resembling small oscillating stars. These star-like electronic excitations are located around indivi...

In a recent series of papers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists examined the role of ablation-front instability and capsule convergence ratio in ignition science experiments at the National Ignitio...

Does glass in cathedral windows flow downward at room temperature--acting essentially as a liquid in super slow-motion? No. It's a myth. The larger volume observed at the bottom of some windows is due to the manufacturin...