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We all have scars, and each one tells a story. Tales of tomfoolery, tales of haphazardness, or in my case, tales of stupidity. Whether the cause of your scar was a push-bike accident, a lack of concentration while cuttin...

Pop! goes the New Year's corks--and the bubbles that result might point to how high-quality your champagne is, researchers say.

A simple actimeter device is helping researchers better understand sleep duration and quality in humans.

A new study reveals selenium is essential for the postnatal development of a specific type of interneuron.

The "vast majority" of people commenting, sharing and liking anti-vaccination information on Facebook are women, a new study finds.

"The Six Ds are a chain reaction of technological progression, a road map of rapid development that always leads to enormous upheaval and opportunity." -Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Bold We live in incredible times...

This New Year's Day will bring a "Full Wolf Moon," the biggest of the supermoons expected in 2018.

It is almost six years since the LHC spotted the Higgs boson, and the collider will soon shut down for upgrades. Will it find anything else?

Human beings seem to be obsessed with the purity of water. But the reality is, totally pure water doesn't exist.

The mere thought of holiday traditions brings smiles to most people's faces and elicits feelings of sweet anticipation and nostalgia. We can almost smell those candles, taste those special meals, hear those familiar song...

Here are eight interesting things we learned in 2017 about the factors that may influence happiness and lower your odds of stress and depression.

Fat isn't all bad - it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections

Google Earth is an amazing trove of visuals from all over the planet, and new strange things turn up in it all the time. Here are the best from 2017.

(Science China Press) The poor cycling stability and low rate performance become the big bottleneck of high specific capacity Li-rich layered oxide materials. Recently, a research team led by Prof. L. Q. Mai at Wuhan Uni...

In our last post, we introduced the pond--the surface of a body of water serving as an intriguing analogy for spacetime--with waves as a transient expression of energy, much like photons or gravitational waves, and eddie...