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Engaging young children in conversation helps boost language development, researchers report.

It's been a long time coming. For years Waymo (formerly known as Google Chauffeur) has been diligently developing, driving, testing and refining its fleets of various models of self-driving cars. Now Waymo is going big. ...

Traditionally, a quantum harmonic oscillator model is used to describe the tiny vibrations in a diatomic molecule, but the description is also universal in the sense that it can be extended to a variety of other situatio...

A silicon-based quantum computing device could be closer than ever due to a new experimental device that demonstrates the potential to use light as a messenger to connect quantum bits of information--known as qubits--tha...

A new study reveals the brain utilizes eye movements to help recall vivid memories of past experiences.

The Falcon Heavy launch was more than just spectacle - it set the stage for a future Mars mission. Now we need to think about who's in the driver's seat

Cape Town's water reserves are so low that it may soon have to turn off the taps. How did it get this bad, asks Michael Le Page

Researchers implicate the locus coeruleus in storing memories of stressful events.

Unexpected sounds make people stop an action more often than when they hear no sounds at all. A new study offers an insight into how sensory cues would speed up the brain's communication with the motor system.

The corpses of these tiny creatures ooze out a slimy layer that may explain catastrophic undersea landslides and tsunamis.

Depleting BACE1 completely reverses the formation of amyloid plaques and improves cognitive function in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.

A sunken WWII vessel inspired the photographer who snapped a haunting underwater image.

The longevity field is bustling but still fragmented, and the "silver tsunami" is coming. That is the takeaway of The Science of Longevity, the behemoth first volume of a four-part series offering a bird's-eye view of th...

Chocolate, the most popular sweet treat in the world, makes you feel good and it may be good for you, too.

Illegal or unwanted drones put air travellers at risk, so a competition called DroneClash is calling for new ways to tackle them

These ants care for one another.

It's customary to give ravishing red gifts on Valentine's Day -- think red roses, red boxes of chocolate or even your heart (figuratively speaking).

Everyone knows that water freezes at 0 degrees C. Life on Earth would be vastly different if this were not so. However, water's cousin, silica, exhibits wayward behavior when cooled that has long puzzled scientists.

Iceberg A-68, which broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, takes center stage in newly released footage.

An experimental treatment regimen has enabled a transgender woman to exclusively breastfeed her baby for six weeks, during which time the baby grew healthily

The network of nerves is the body's electrical wiring.

Actress Lena Dunham has revealed that she recently underwent a hysterectomy to treat crippling pain from endometriosis.