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Ten women in the United States will soon be chosen to undergo the nation's first uterus transplants. The procedure is still highly experimental, and there are unknown risks.

A massive portion of the old Bay Bridge is set to be demolished on Saturday, but the whole endeavor is unlikely to be very dramatic, experts say.

For me, the word nanotechnology evokes a specific image. Maybe you're the same. It's a machine. Perhaps a little futuristic. But something that wouldn't seem out of place on the...

Enjoy this inauspicious Friday, because you won't see another one like it until 2026.

Can't get enough of Friday the 13th? Here's a collection of stories and countdowns about the superstitious day.

A new powdered form of adhesive is dry and pourable, meaning it can stick in hard-to-reach places and to rough materials

Beavers can naturally regulate water flow, filter out water pollution and benefit fish and wetlands. Does that mean we should reintroduce them?

Male bumblebees are good for more than just sex. Turns out, they've got smarts as well and get flying colors on flower tests just like females.

"Simply put, we can't keep preparing children for a world that doesn't exist." -Cathy N. Davidson Exponential technologies have a tendency to move from a deceptively slow pace of development...

USDA recommendations for salt labeling on food packaging.

Emilia Lahti: MA, Applied Positive Psychology, Entrepreneur Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate Finland and the US When faced with extreme adversity, why do some people persevere and grow from the challenge, while oth...

When astronomers last redefined "planet", Pluto was demoted to being a dwarf. A proposed revision to the criteria would instead grant planethood to the moon

If you add quantum dots - nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair - to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles.

Standing at the South Pole is the next-best thing to being on another planet. If you walk a few hundred yards away from the buildings that make up the National Science Foundation's research station, you see a featureless...

(Phys.org)--Researchers have designed a nanoscale device that, under ideal conditions, can confine a "bit" of light (that is, light with a single precise energy value) for an infinite amount of time. Although a physicall...

Images reveal Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu and recent scanning research that archaeologists have undertaken there. Their findings suggest the presence of a possible tomb hidden in the pyramid.

Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, according to new research.

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have made a major breakthrough by making a porous liquid - with the potential for a massive range of new technologies including 'carbon capture'.

Giant, lizardlike beasts with teeth strong enough to puncture clamshells and equipped with short limbs and a long, paddle-shaped tail populated waterways some 200 million years ago. And now, two new species of these thal...

Advanced physics is a lot more fun than you might think.

The winning images from this year's contest don't disappoint.

Supervolcanoes, such as the one dormant under Yellowstone National Park, may erupt when cracks form in the roofs of the chambers holding their molten rock, according to a new study.