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People who drink moderate amounts of coffee daily may live longer than people who don't drink coffee, a new study finds.

Pluto's the prettiest dwarf planet at the party in this new, brilliantly colored image recently released by NASA.

Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they've always given off heat--either as a useful tool, a byproduct or a fictional way to vanquish intergalactic enemies.

Lions and tigers and birds, oh my!

The amount of data that flows over the internet has exploded in the last decade. Whether people are watching cat videos, streaming movies, or uploading vacation photos to social media sites, they are demanding ever highe...

What's more scarce than perfect diamonds, right? Wrong. This week, a new company called Diamond Foundry announced that it is able to "grow" hundreds of perfect, "real" diamonds (up to...

The organization's many-sided facade is about to become a giant digital photo album.

Predators and prey bring an ancient tile floor to life.

This year's particularly strong El Niño is expected to get even stronger before it's done.

Swimming just below the water's surface, a Sunburst diving beetle larva locates its target by visually "scanning" it with up-and-down head movements.

A team of Australian engineers has proven--with the highest score ever obtained--that a quantum version of computer code can be written, and manipulated, using two quantum bits in a silicon microchip. The advance removes...

But only small proportion of this, perhaps as little as 1.5 per cent, is renewable and available for human use

For decades it was believed the brain was a black box--the elusive central node of our operating system which we simply didn't understand. And it's true, scientific knowledge of the...

Male ruff sandpipers come in three types, each with its own bizarre mating strategy, thanks to a supergene created 3.8 million years ago

Many animals sense Earth's magnetic field and use it to navigate. How they do it has been a matter of speculation - but we may now have the answer

Carnivores such as the Tyrannosaures rex and Allosaurus fragilis could produce wide jaw gape, giving them the ability to to maximize devastation to their prey.

Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn't been played for 1,500 years were discovered in a heavily looted 2,300-year-old tomb near Qingzhou City in China.

At the Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science, for the first time in the world, using the newly installed "Plasma Simulator" we have ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient board game, including a decorated dice and tiles, that hasn't been played for 1,500 years.

Slow, steady breathing lofts minute food particles into the nasal cavity, where they contribute to your perception of flavor. Christopher Intagliata reports --

Catastrophic floods in Queensland in 2010-11 have been linked to a combination of global warming and a La Niña event. The dynamic duo may be back next year

Perhaps you could care less, but newly spotted differences in how our brains work could explain why some people are apathetic and lazy. Scientists say motivation could be more about biology than attitude.