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The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic body parts can match the strength and emotions of their human creators. As someone who builds biologically inspired rob...

Colin, from Newfoundland, Canada wrote in this week to ask: The Trans Canada Highway runs fairly straight. If I was to start at the border of Ontario and Manitoba and, as soon as the sun came up, began to drive west at 1...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, has transformed our view of the brain, allowing researchers to pinpoint areas associated with everything from depression and dementia to playing chess and engaging in sex.

Gold. The word brings to mind wedding rings, buried treasure and California in the 1840's. But when gold is reduced to 1/100,000 the size of a human hair, it takes on an entirely new personality.

If you've ever lived in an apartment building or stayed in a hotel room, you are probably familiar with the inconvenience of inadequate sound absorption. Acoustic absorption refers to the absorption of sound energy by a ...

The same volcanic eruptions that made the dark patches we can see on the moon spewed out enough hot gas to create an atmosphere billions of years ago

Research into training, helmet technology and concussion treatment is striving to make football safer, but will it be enough?

Beryllium is one of the lightest metals and has one of the highest melting points among the light metals.

The large underground reserves of helium in East Africa are at least twice as large as first reported, according to scientists.

A huge cache of underground helium was discovered in the Rift Valley region of Tanzania.

Actress Gabrielle Union has had "eight or nine miscarriages," according to an essay published in her new book.

Analogy is well used in startups and most boardrooms around the world to simplify and find parallels between two different things, but the method is often overlooked for more complex tasks surrounding innovation. Analogo...

The Blade Runner replicants are nearly indistinguishable from humans in every way except for their emotions. Here's what we'd need to build such a human-like robot in real-life.

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Drinking an extra six glasses of water a day may reduce some women's risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs), according to a new study.

An iceberg could shed light on warming-fueled fate of Antarctica.

A hair-promoting protein can stop mice from losing fur when given chemo, raising the hope that cancer patients will be able to avoid this side effect

Archaeologists found a copper blade in Switzerland that's just like the ax -tzi the famous "Iceman" was carrying when he died.

In the great desolation and emptiness of northwestern New Mexico, the ruins of an advanced Pre-Columbian civilization is preserved today within a 53-square-mile national historic park.

When you bang on a simple drumhead, it will most certainly make a noise, but you probably wouldn't call that noise a musical note.

It was one of the breakthroughs of the year 2010: Laser spectroscopy of muonic hydrogen resulted in a value for the proton charge radius that was significantly smaller, by four standard deviations, than previous determin...

Photographers with the European Space Agency hoping to spot the International Space Station crossing the face of the sun got more than they bargained for when a bird joined the party.