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There is no truth to the claim that the Earth will plunge into 15 days of darkness on Nov. 15. Don't be left in the dark on this space hoax.

ROBOTICS: How to Design a Robot You Can Swallow Emily Waltz | IEEE Spectrum "Vanderbilt engineers want to speed up the development of capsule robots. So they have created an open-source modular...

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Tasting food relies on food volatiles moving from the back of the mouth to the nasal cavity, but researchers have wondered why airflow doesn't carry them in the other direction, into the lungs. Now a team of engineers, u...

Scientists have uncovered the role of cyclin -- the protein molecule that drives the growth of malaria within mosquitoes. The research could pave the way to better understanding of how the malaria parasite thrives and le...