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A research team at the University of Washington has trained an artificial intelligence system to spot obesity--all the way from space. The system used a convolutional neural network (CNN) to analyze 150,000 satellite ima...

A fraction of a second after the Big Bang, a single unified force may have shattered. Scientists from the CDF and DZero Collaborations used data from the Fermilab Tevatron Collider to re-create the early universe conditi...

A new study reports activity, not rest, help speed up recovery following a brain injury.

The electrical and mechanical responses of crystal materials, and the control of their coupled effect, form one of the central themes in material science. They are vital to applications such as ultrasonic generators and ...

Surf's up for microbes swimming beside red blood cells.

Covert sensing of objects around a corner may soon become a reality.

A group of scientists at the University of Tokyo has recorded the largest magnetic field ever generated indoors--a whopping 1,200 tesla, as measured in the standard units of magnetic field strength.

By creating a new twist on fiber optic sensors, researchers in China have developed a smart, flexible photoacoustic imaging technique that may have potential applications in wearable devices, instrumentation and medical ...

A new study reports our cognitive flexibility in judging those who wrong us may shed light on both the human tendency to forgive, and explain why people hold on to those who continue to wrong them.

Antibacterial cleaning products have the ability to alter the gut microbiome, increasing the risk for obesity in children, researchers report.

A new, comprehensive data analysis study challenges existing paradigms in psychology relating to personality types. Researchers report there appear to be four major clusters of personality types.

A honeybee swarm behaves like a superorganism by changing shape in response to physical stress - although doing so means individuals take on a greater burden

Engineered skin cells inserted beneath the skin of mice help destroy cocaine in the blood before it reaches the brain - and the therapy might work in people too

Scientists have discovered that the human eye has a spooky ability.

For one woman in Arizona, taking a turmeric supplement may have triggered an uncommon liver problem.

Compostable products are all the rage these days. But what happens to these items -- including compostable straws and silverware -- when they're thrown into a landfill instead of a compost heap?

Yusaku Maezawa, founder of clothing company ZoZo, will be the first space tourist to travel around the moon, private spaceflight company SpaceX announced tonight (Sept. 17).

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is stopping proton collisions for five days this week to undergo numerous tests. Accelerator specialists need to test the LHC when it is not in production mode and there are only several w...

As a result of climate change, population growth, and rising expectations regarding quality of life, energy requirements for cooling processes are growing much faster worldwide than for heating. Another problem that bese...

A surprising third party was involved in the creation of Britain.

Schrödinger's cat has a new friend: Schrödinger's thermometer.

The ocean seems to disappear into Oregon's rocky coastline.