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You're probably wondering what Game of Thrones has to do with chatbots and artificial intelligence. Before I explain this weird connection, I need to warn you that this article may contain some serious spoilers. Continue...

Aside from being hot, what does the liquid, metallic core of a newly formed planet have in common with a bowl of chicken noodle soup?It turns out that in both cases, the liquid can mix and mingle by convection--the proce...

A star factory with the lowest oxygen level ever seen in such a galaxy could help us understand how the elements were distributed after the big bang

A type of simulated water ice has a molecular structure so sparse it's like frozen candy floss, making it the lightest type of ice we've ever seen

A humidity and temperature monitor developed for CMS finds a new home in Lebanon. People who tend crops in Lebanon and people who tend particle detectors on the border of France and Switzerland have a need in common: lar...

When people picture sand spread across idyllic beaches and endless deserts, they understandably think of it as an infinite resource but a resource perspective reveals the over-exploitation of global supplies is causing a...

A construction crew in Colorado was forced to stop work on a new fire and police station recently when one of the workers hit something unusual: a pair of bones from a Triceratops that lived more than 65 million years ag...

Friday morning saw Irma downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane. But don't relax just yet -- it's still a powerful and potentially deadly beast of a storm.

The decision about new hurricane names is made by a committee, which doesn't stop some people from making their own special naming requests.

The tropical storm has left a trail of devastation across the region, reducing islands to wreckage and leaving at least 14 people dead

Physicists from the University of Basel have developed a memory that can store photons. These quantum particles travel at the speed of light and are thus suitable for high-speed data transfer. The researchers were able t...

"Horrendous" hack of Equifax, a US firm responsible for millions of people's credit ratings, is not the biggest in US history, but the data is the most sensitive

Average IQ may be falling, a trend some think is due to smarter people having fewer children. Now evidence suggests longer lifespans may be to blame instead

Solar storms in 2016 may have scrambled the magnetic field sperm whales use to navigate.

The strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in 100 years struck off the country's southern coast late Thursday night local time, killing at least five people and sending residents fleeing into the streets.

Ferocious Hurricane Irma continues to roar through the Atlantic on its path toward the Florida Peninsula. Here's what meteorologists are forecasting for its landfall in the Sunshine State.

They're the tallest animal on Earth with necks that are 6 feet tall!

The US Geological Survey reported the earthquake's magnitude as 8.1, making it the biggest earthquake in Mexico since 1932

Fabricating hybrid semiconductor lasers on materials other than the commonly used silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates has proved challenging. Now, A*STAR researchers have developed an innovative technique that can inte...

Marijuana with relatively high levels of a compound called cannabidiol may be less risky to smoke over the long term, because this ingredient may counteract some of the drug's harmful effects.

Conventional electron accelerators have become an indispensable tool in modern research. The extremely bright radiation generated by synchrotrons, or free electron lasers, provides unique insights into matter at the atom...

Millennials, also called Generation Y, were born between 1982 and 2000.