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Last month, I attended the first annual Unintended Consequences of Technology (or UCOT) in San Francisco. I can't say enough about the high quality of the content or the importance and timeliness of the topics discussed....

General relativity has survived its latest test after observations of a violent collision between neutron stars tallied perfectly with Einstein's theory

Using machine-learning and an integrated photonic chip, researchers from INRS (Canada) and the University of Sussex (UK) can now customize the properties of broadband light sources. Also called "supercontinuum", these so...

Illustrations from the Scientific American archive break down this “massive” development --

In addition to having implications for personal health, sugar sweetened drinks may have addictive properties, researchers report. The study found when abstaining from drinking sweetened drinks, people who consume them of...

Researchers report personality traits and psychological health impact how we value personal control when making decisions. The study reports brain activity in the motivation system is dampened in those with passive perso...

An aquaponic system is an example of an integrated farming method in which the waste byproduct from one production process, like raising fish and other seafood, serves as a nutrient for another part of the system--like g...

General relativity has survived its latest test after observations of a violent collision between neutron stars tallied perfectly with Einstein's theory

Why do American presidents pardon Thanksgiving turkeys?

Worldwide, preterm birth is a leading cause of death for children under five-years-old. A new algorithm combined with a handheld, smartphone-based device could aid health care workers in remote locations to estimate degr...

Worst. Year. EVER.

What is happening when something as lovely as ice cream causes such awful pain?

As winter approaches in the northern hemisphere, hundreds of scientists are heading to Antarctica to study the solar system's past and predict Earth's future

Factory workers at Ford's car assembly plants are using exoskeletons to help with their gruelling work. Leah Crane visited the factory to try one out

When professional divers jump from a springboard, their hands are perpendicular to the water, with wrists pointed upward, as they continue toward their plunge at 30 mph.

Both can be made using the power of particle accelerators.

A team of researchers from Canada, France and Poland has found that electrons inside of some ceramic crystals appear to dissipate in a surprising, yet familiar way--possibly a clue to the reason for the odd behavior of "...

Many professional road cycling events are hundreds of kilometres long, but the final placings are often decided by what happens in the last few seconds of any race stage.

A team of researchers from the School of Physics at the University of St Andrews have developed tiny lasers that could revolutionise our understanding and treatment of many diseases, including cancer.

Jezero crater on Mars is thought to have once had a river flowing along its rim and could hold signs of ancient life

A new study from England suggests that the drug makes people more cooperative, but only with those who are deemed trustworthy.

Around the same time the ancient Egyptians were building their mighty pyramids, tiny termites were digging through the earth, creating giant mounds in Brazil that still exist today and are so massive, they're visible fro...