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Any Star Wars fan knows that the chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. The odds are probably significantly higher against today's autonomous drones, which fly quite a bit slow...

Any physical exercise will improve thinking, as long as you do it somewhat consistently and stick with it long enough, according to an analysis of 98 previous studies.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Irene Chen is recognized for her work with a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Pluto doesn't have much of an atmosphere, but it does have just enough wind to blow methane ice grains into a field of dunes at the foot of a huge mountain range

If you have a large brain, certain regions are much bigger than expected and others are smaller - but we don't know how this affects intelligence yet

A new study reveals how cocaine use alters gene expression and provides new insight into the molecular basis of cocaine addiction.

Elastic fibres inside a feather can spring back to their original shape when soaked in water, helping it straighten even after being bent nearly in half

A new law in the US allows terminally ill people access to unproven medicine, but it's not clear who will pay if treatments go horribly wrong

If you want to understand how a material changes from one atomic-level configuration to another, it's not enough to capture snapshots of before-and-after structures. It'd be better to track details of the transition as i...

Researchers report sensory based food education encourages healthier eating choices in kindergarten aged children.

Half-mammal, half-reptile? That's not a thing.

A new study reports mothers who demonstrate better emotional control and problem solving abilities have a more positive influence on their child's behavior.

Feeding fruit flies a combination of probiotics and Triphala, a herbal supplement, increased longevity by 60% and protected them against age related diseases, researchers report.

As Earth orbits the sun at supersonic speed, it cuts a path through the solar wind. This fast stream of charged particles, or plasma, launched from the sun's outer layers would bombard Earth's atmosphere if not for the p...

Often maligned for being bland, cauliflower, when prepared properly, can be flavorful as well as healthful.

Augmented reality is technology that not only interacts with you, but enhances your senses with images, information and audio.

THE Great Barrier Reef, which runs for 2,300km along the coast of Queensland, is one of the icons of environmentalism. Conservationists constantly worry that human activity, particularly greenhouse-gas-induced global war...

Race you to space IT TAKES a lot of oomph to launch a satellite into space. Typically, the payload represents only about 5% of the mass of a rocket as it leaves the launch pad. The rocket's motors account for some of the...

Auntie's choice THAT human beings often continue to pour money into bad projects because they have already invested in them and cannot bring themselves to lose that investment is well known. Indeed the sunk-cost fallacy,...

MUCH of the medical research conducted on HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, looks at patients' blood. This is no surprise. Blood is both easy to collect and easy to preserve. But HIV is not confined to the bloodstreams of...

"HOW the human got his brain" is probably the most important "Just So" story that Rudyard Kipling never wrote. Kipling did not ignore people in his quirky take on evolution. Two of his tales describe the invention of the...

Every day, an estimated 300 to 520 people in the U.S. try heroin. But how many develop a dependency?