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Learning to walk again after a traumatic accident is no easy task. One of the hardest things for motor-impaired patients is to generate the correct brain signals to help them recover...

A record-breaking number of small earthquakes has hit San Ramon, California, over the past two weeks.

Food you can't see is food you're less likely to snack on, a new study suggests.

If an ancient amphibian lost a limb or a tail, it could simply sprout a new one, according to researchers who found fossil evidence of limb regeneration dating back 290 million years.

Snakes can slither smoothly over almost any surface, from jungle branches to desert sands, without damaging their skin - an ability that has fascinated researchers. The fatty layer covering snakeskin protects the animal'...

A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.

IVERMECTIN, a medicine employed for the treatment of nematode-worm infections, has a side-effect. It has been known since the 1980s that the drug kills arthropods (ticks, mites, insects and so on) foolish enough to bite ...

Severe urinary tract infections spike in the summertime, especially among younger women, a new study finds.

There's still time to assemble an appropriately geeky getup in time for this weekend's festivities.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its deepest dive yet through the Saturn moon's plume, perhaps close enough to spot the ingredients for life

Archaeologists who thought they were excavating the site of an ancient house in Greece recently uncovered something much more rare.

To keep people healthy on missions to deep space and other planets, we need to monitor those in extreme, isolated conditions, says ESA medic Beth Healey

Physicists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich shorten electron pulses down to 30 femtoseconds duration. This enables them to gain detailed insight into atomic motions in molecules.

Using planetary orbits, physicists have pinned down just how precisely right Einstein was: Any deviations from his theory of general relativity are so small they would change calculations by just one part in 10,000 to on...

A sonic tractor beam can push, pull and manipulate objects in thin air using an exquisitely timed sequence of sound waves.

High-pitched, intense sound waves, from 64 mini-speakers, manipulate low mass objects in this test device created by a team from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex and the Ultrahaptics Company.

A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.

Extreme climate events, such as this year's El Niño, can force penguins to swim much further for their food, endangering their survival

Discovering possible new forces in nature is no mean task. The discovery of gravity linked to Newton's arguably apocryphal apple experiment has remained anchored in popular culture. In January 1986, Ephraim Fischbach, Ph...

Five of the six top causes of death in America -- including stroke, cancer and diabetes -- now have lower death rates than they have in past years, according to a new report.

Avalanching sand from dune faces in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert can trigger loud, rumbling "booming" or short bursts of "burping" sounds--behaving as a perfectly tuned musical instrument.

Hall thrusters are advanced electric rocket engines primarily used for station-keeping and attitude control of geosynchronous communication satellites and space probes. Recently, the launch of two satellites based on an ...