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As of last year, student athletes in the United States began attending universities on scholarship to play, get this, video games. I did not make this up, and if your...

In a classic eureka moment, a team of physicists led by The City College of New York and including Herriot-Watt University and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entangle...

Too much CO2 is not so good for our brains, either.

People who are married may be more likely to survive after heart surgery, a new study finds.

Electric eels have a shocking way of demobilizing their dinner.

Scientists record sharp voltage increases as feeding electric eels curl their bodies. These electrical discharge immobilize prey by short-circuiting their neuromuscular system, causing extreme muscle fatigue.

Peering closely at sand you see far more than the beach.

For two Baltimore parents, their three new bundles of joy may make them feel like one in a million, and statistics show they're not far off: Parents Thomas and Kristen Hewitt welcomed a rare set of identical triplets ear...

Alpha Centauri Bb was announced in 2012 as the nearest exoplanet that could resemble Earth, but another team concludes it was probably a spurious signal

The last leg of negotiations on a UN climate deal set to be finalised in December has focused on the $100 billion a year needed to fund the changes

Potentially catastrophic consequences are expected when record-breaking Patricia makes landfall later today

A start-up in Boston will give wearable stress monitors to 1000 doctors and nurses to track the pattern of their moods and how it affects those in their care

In species with the largest vocal organs, males have the smallest testicles, suggesting an evolutionary trade-off between winning mates and making sperm

If you thought bees only cared about flowers, think again. Some of them also farm fungus to survive - meaning that fungicides could harm them

While global TB incidence is declining, much more work needs to be done to reach new UN targets of ending the epidemic by 2030

A start-up is developing autonomous spherical seafaring drones that could scan the seas for everything from missing aircraft to coral reefs

New Horizons heads beyond Pluto, how climate change will affect the Hajj, dung shortage hits ecosystems around the world and more

Molecular oxygen has been spotted on a comet for the first time, which could help solve a mystery about when the substance first appeared in the solar system

The brilliant yellows in four of Vincent van Gogh's paintings are fading, but a map of at-risk areas could help prevent further damage

Tremors from 200 kilometres down spread widely, but not as powerfully as deadly shallower quakes in the region. Up to 1000 deaths are still possible though

A Canadian firm is using bees to deliver tiny amounts of pesticides to the flowers of crops, aiming to cut indiscriminate spraying of plants

The only refuge for Africa's rapidly declining lions is in the continent's southern nations, where heavy-handed management has conserved them