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Tesla Motors wants to buy SolarCity for $2.8 billion in stock-to-stock.
It's amazing to see how the bears can sense human patterns and use us. It's actually refreshing for a change.
The secret lies in an ultra-sticky saliva that's 400 times more adhesive than human spit, a new study reveals.
A controversial study that's sure to anger a lot of doctors found many physicians can be influenced to prescribe brand-name medication following free meals offered by the pharmaceutical companies.
There may be a fine line between how baby birds learn to sing and humans learn to speak.
Artificial intelligence is learning in seconds what took humans a lifetime to master.
Sueur and Pelé have seen Japanese macaques washing potatoes, riding deer for transportation, taking hot-spring baths, handling stones, fighting with snowballs and many other things you'd class as "human". They've written a book about these amazing monkeys which will be out soon.
Scientists estimate that 43% of Brits now experience chronic pain or around 28 million people.
What would you if you had the power of invisibility? It's possible in virtual reality. The sensations are as real as they get, though.
Even though you shouldn't care about helping your third cousin from Wisconsin, chances have it you'll do. Now, there's a new game theory model that explains why this happens.
A new study found there are some added benefits to keeping the coffee in the fridge, which not even the best baristas know.
2016 will go in history as the first year carbon emission stay above 400ppm all year round. I don't think anyone's proud about this.
As if finding happiness wasn't complicated enough, we now have a multi-variable equation.
Thousands of light years away, a two-handed molecule might help us unravel the secrets of life.
As they whizzed past ramparts, the holed-bullets whistled, "or more accurately gave off a mechanical buzzing sound eerily reminiscent of an agitated wasp," archeologists said.
Aptly called the "Silent Partner", this device exploits the fundamental physics of pressure sound waves to render snoring mute.
You can only postpone the inevitable.
Nikola, a shameless spinoff, is trying to do for trucks what Tesla Motors did for cars. Do they have what it takes, though?
Just from thoughts alone, researchers were able to reconstruct the faces of people portrayed in pictures.
Many animals and plants are trapped in the face of mounting climate change. Their only hope are corridors that free access to cooler areas of the country.
Inching along the path towards the perfect invisibility cloak.
The oldest computer in the world was found a century ago, but scientists are still learning.
The vibrant night's sky that has enchanted countless generations is fading from from memory.
You'll recognize the work instantly if you've seen movies like Avatar, Super 8 or Superman Man of Steel.
The Hellisheidi power plant is the largest geothermal system in the world, but also the site of a unique science experiment.
This Wednesday, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk met behind closed doors with United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter down at the Pentagon.
Detecting landmines can be difficult, dangerous and expensive, but an unsung hero is set to change all this.
No later than October, Climeworks expects to open the first ever commercial carbon dioxide capture plant in the world, near Zurich.
Astronomers used to think black holes feed exclusively on a hot gas and dust, but it seems they sometimes like to go out for ice cream.
One single bacterial strain is responsible for the death of millions.
There are scores of marine species that have evolved light emitting abilities -- as many as four in five ocean fish are bioluminescent
A Yellow Meranti tree that towers at about 89.5m tall was discovered by Cambridge researchers in Malaysia.
When in danger of A.I. overlords, press the big red button.
Microsoft researchers data mined health queries and detected pancreatic cancer symptoms before the user even thought about it.
The bullet packs the most painful punch in the animal kingdom.
Parents should know this if they want to make an informed decision.
One of the most famous biology myths was just confirmed. It was rather shocking.
Many parents view high-paced action video games as a pernicious pastime for their children, but science says otherwise.
Flat lenses could revolutionize optics, researchers say.
Scientists want to build and deploy a fully synthetic human genome in human cell lines within 10 years.
A longitudinal study which tracked 1,037 New Zealanders from birth to middle age found marijuana use did not cause physical problems, with one notable exception: periodontal health.
Having their troops and secret agents infiltrated through half of Europe all the way to Germany, the Soviet Union as a matter of convenience decided to keep control of all of these regions it had "liberated" during the war. The spoils of war go the victor, and the Soviet Union took this very, very seriously.
The low prices are making a lot of rooftop residents jubilant, but the same can't be said about the largest solar contractors in the states whose stocks have plummeted by more than 50 percent.
A startling report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says food crops like wheat and maize are generating toxins to protect themselves from extreme weather. Ingesting food made from toxic crops can lead to neurological diseases, but the greatest concern is cancer says Alex Ezeh, executive director of the African Population Health and Research Center.
At Recode's Code Conference serial entrepreneur Elon Musk gave his own two cents on why our existence could be in fact a simulation on some advanced civilization's supercomputers.
Goat eyes can be pretty freak. But there's a very good reason why they have this distinct square shape.
One group from Lund University in Sweden says Planet 9 or Planet X, as it's sometimes called, might actually be an exoplanet, initially formed in another solar system but captured by our sun in an interstellar gravity tug of war.
The United States, a nation who's used to reporting lower mortality ever year, had a larger death rate in 2015 compared to the previous year. This was the first time in ten years and the third time in 25 years.
Researchers at University of Bern, Switzerland, found Orcinus orca (killer whales) populations have evolved distinct genetic lineages due to unique hunting strategies.
Analysists from Grammarly looked at all the general election debate transcripts since the 1960s word for word and found Presidential candidates have greatly simplified their language since.
