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It's harvest season in many parts of the world, but on one farm in the United Kingdom, robots -- not humans -- are doing all the heavy lifting.

The brain has long inspired the design of computers and their software. Now Intel has become the latest tech company to decide that mimicking the brain's hardware could be the next stage in the evolution of computing. On...

Some former astronauts have a message for flat-Earther B.o.B: The curve is real, and we've seen it.

Astronomers have a new model for the origin of these impossibly primitive cosmic monsters --

Ice analogs mimicking interstellar ice behave like liquids at temperatures between -210°C and -120°C according to Hokkaido University researchers. This liquid-like ice may enhance the formation of organic compounds inc...

Particle accelerators have opened a unique window into the subatomic world, revealing some of the most fundamental components of our universe. In the last ten years, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has taken us to new...

A woman in Houston contracted "flesh-eating bacteria" from water that flooded her home during Hurricane Harvey.

Mysterious shipments of "antiques" and art that are worth incredible sums of money were shipped to the United States in 1991 and 1992, according to documents obtained by Live Science.

One unique arachnid found not only in the Sonoran Desert but also in the Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts is the desert tarantula. Check out these amazing photos of desert tarantulas.

The Viking-age fortress is likely part of a network of military sites built by the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth.

Atrial fibrillation is the most prevalent form of cardiac arrhythmia, affecting up to 6 million people in the U.S. alone. Common treatments for severe forms of the erratic beating phenomenon are controversial, and guided...

Carbon is one of the most abundant elements and forms a very large number of compounds, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon disulfide.

Hurricane Maria is long gone but almost all of Puerto Rico has been left without a power supply, and restarting the national grid from scratch will be very difficult

Two large stone carvings, each the size of breakfast tables, depict an incredible action scene: Maya ballplayers lunging forward, wearing distinctive ballplayer belts.

The Vandals were a "barbarian" Germanic people who sacked Rome. The name has become a synonym for destruction.

Elon Musk wants his company SpaceX to start robotic Mars flights by 2022 and land people on the Red Planet in 2024 using a giant "BFR" spaceship that could also fly to the moon, Earth orbit and other places on our planet...

TU Wien is conducting research into high-precision 3-D printing technology. Now, a new method is enabling researchers to look for suitable materials with greater precision than ever.

Sunlight allows green algae to do more than just carry out photosynthesis. Some unicellular algae actually use light to switch the adhesion of their flagella to surfaces on and off - a phenomenon first discovered by phys...

In Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, a cat seems to be both dead and alive--an idea that strains credulity. These days, cats still don't act this way, but physicists now regularly create analogues of Schrödinger...

Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez had a severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), but how did his condition progress so quickly?

A new study sheds light on a type of amnesia that's psychological in origin.

Astronomers have a new model for the origin of these impossibly primitive cosmic monsters --