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A smart skin sticker can monitor breathing and send the data to a smartphone. It could one day spot signs of asthma attacks before they happen

The origins of our paradoxical nature lie in murder and self-domestication. It's a weird story that may even explain why our species came into existence

A new species of tarantula has something in common with the mythical unicorn -- a prominent "horn."

A new study reports relapse dreams are more common in those with severe clinical histories of addiction. Researchers say the frequency of these relapse dreams decrease as the brain and body adapt to abstinence.

The study suggests motor learning difficulties can be reversed through behavioral training.

Researchers have developed a new technique to study the development of human neurons compared to the neurons of nonhuman primates. The findings shed new light on the evolution of the human brain.

According to a new study, men have a stronger positive correlation between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain function as they age.

In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away.

Ten years into the future. That's about how far UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor John Bowers and his research team are reaching with the recent development of their mode-locked quantum dot l...

A new study reports the hierarchy of intrinsic neural timescales appears to be disrupted in adults on the autism spectrum. Researchers say the differences in neural timescales could underlie features of ASD, like hyperse...

AntBot is a six-legged robot that can get home without the help of GPS, thanks to tactics borrowed from desert ants

Measuring a fever is usually pretty simple: place a thermometer under a patient's tongue and get an accurate temperature reading within 30 seconds. But that simplicity does not translate when it comes to measuring the te...

For almost a decade, the world's most expensive experiment failed to break new ground. But its biggest discoveries may have gone unnoticed

Milk from breast pumps contains more pathogens than milk that is directly breastfed, which may explain why asthma is more common in bottle-fed infants

How do you block sound without cutting off airflow? It's a tricky question, but new work out of Boston University shows a promising advance.The tricky part comes from the fact that we call "sound" is actually a series of...

As time passes, our memories of negative emotions normally fade faster than positive ones, helping us to move on. But this isn't the case when it comes to exes

One of the most contentious debates in technology is around the question of automation and jobs. At issue is whether advances in automation, specifically with regards to artificial intelligence and robotics, will spell t...

One of the great exploration stories of our time is officially over.

Paleontologists working in South Korea found ancient spider fossils with mirrors in their eyes.

Teaser: A re-examination of the fossil record has produced a new theory of the super-fish's demise.

These meltwater lakes are tearing Antarctica's ice shelves apart from the inside.

Complex, three-dimensional (3-D) structures are regularly constructed using a reliable commercial method of 3-D laser micro- and nanoprinting. In a recent study, Frederik Mayer and co-workers in Germany and Australia hav...