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Some 50,000 years ago Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans co-existed, mingled and interbred. While only the human lineage exists today,...

The prevailing assumption is that mothers who birth more children live short lives due to accelerated biological aging. Researchers turn...

Birds are literally dinosaurs, so many scientists suspect millions of years ago dinosaurs shared similar courtship tactics like fancy plumage...

hinese drone making company Ehang recently showed off one of the most impressive contraptions at the CES convention in Las...

Schistosoma mansoni might not as famous as other nasty parasitic worms like flatworms or roundworms, but outside the U.S. this...

The Chinese capital is notoriously polluted and frequently plagued by smog, a noxious gas mixture made of nitrogen oxides, sulfur...

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Even though they can't remember a word in mandarin, children from China adopted in France bear the same brain activity...

A GreenTechMedia analysis forecasts that energy storage systems, like large density batteries, will become a lot cheaper in the coming...

These aren't Christmas lights, but the actual neural activity of Caenorhabditis Elegans, a parasitic nematode. The brain imaging was done...

Everybody has to eat, but for all their efforts farmers can easily lose a year's worth of crops due to...

Some argue that the first genuine science fiction novel is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where technology bordering necromancy is used to...

Scientists find the specific brain pathway used by ketamine to relieve depression. Now, it's possible to design a new drug...

Before digital or overhead projectors were invented, for hundreds of years people enjoyed projecting large scale images on their walls...

A new study shows a part of the problem that fuels America's prescription opioid epidemic -- the worst drug abuse...

World War II was the most devasting war in human history, if we're to rank by casualties in absolute numbers...

Chinese researchers say their lunar rover found a new type of lunar rock unlike anything the Americans or Soviets had...

Scientists want to grow potatoes on Mars to study crop resilience in the face of climate change. Brilliant or stupid?

YES! SpaceX made it! Wooohooo!

Lions are listed under the Endangered Species Act, five months after a famous lion was lured away from a protected...

It's the bigger or charismatic of animals that get targeted by human hunters. These give off more meat, more pelt...

Just a couple of minutes of high-intensity exercising can provide similar heath benefits as an hour of cardio. Learn why,...

Is this genius or lame? We can't really tell for now.

Over the last three years, NASA engineers have been exploring using additive technology, like 3D printing, to manufacture key rocket...

Is the American dream over?

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy.

Since the first plesiosaur complete skeleton was discovered in 1824, scientists have been debating how on Earth this reptile used...

For more than 200,000 years humans and face mites trace a common history. There's no human that doesn't feed these...

Blue-banded bees employ a head on approach to pollination, a group of researchers at Adelaide University showed. While other bees...

A message from Einstein that shines of fatherly wisdom and speaks of something that most people should always consider: how...

Researchers have discovered a new material that's both transparent and electrically conductive that might make smartphones, TVs, smart windows and...

This beauty was designed, crafted and assembled by Matt Olczyk. The custom-made clock looks like a cross between old pendulum...

MIT researchers made a huge upgrade to an instrument that's indispensable in research today: the atomic force microscope (AFM).

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. According to Designer Carbon Materials - the only company in the world that manufactures this exotic material - it...

A promising power generation system uses the energy you expend walking or running to power mobile devices.

Scientists finally crack down a puzzle that has eluded the community for years. It seems sea level rise does indeed...

Developing countries need an astonishing amount of cash to respect the commitments made at COP21, Paris. This money needs to...

Obesity rates have increased virtually everywhere in the world, especially in the developed world. Some 160 million Americans are obese...

Citizens were against installing a solar farm because it would suck all the energy from the sun -- so plants...

"There's a window that could be opened for a long time or a short time where we have an opportunity...

The image above is a timeline with each frame showcasing a stage in our Universe's evolution, from humble beginning to...

Powerful and smart people in the tech space join hands to found a new AI lab - one focused on...

From its first try, a computer can now draw handwritten characters from an unfamiliar language just as well as humans...

There's a new player in the EV market -- one that might give Tesla a run for its money.

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The craziest thing you'll see all day -- predicting what you look like from DNA.