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The bullet packs the most painful punch in the animal kingdom.
With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.
Parents should know this if they want to make an informed decision.
It's just the early stages, but there's a glimmer of hope.
Computer models like Traffic-Simulation are designed to figure out how each traffic component adds towards a jam. The simulation models various conditions such as number of trucks or cars on the road, average distance and speed of cars, lane geometry and so forth, to explain how they develop.
Those who work odd hours in shifts risk heart complications.
An archeologist studying Irish iron-age musical horns has found a very surprising correspondent of the ancient musical arts in Europe: these artistic practices, long considered to be dead, are still alive and well in south India.
One of the most famous biology myths was just confirmed. It was rather shocking.
Our brain may be downplaying other people to save your relationship.
There's just not enough fiber in our diets.
We may actually get to see a black hole!
A conversation is a two-way street where cooperation is paramount, and humans aren't the only great apes that put it to good use.
No, Agent Scully, it's not aliens.
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona have identified four sequences of genetic code that can reprogram mice skin cells to produce red blood cells. If this method can be used on human tissues, it would provide a reliable source of blood for transfusions and people with anemia.
Many parents view high-paced action video games as a pernicious pastime for their children, but science says otherwise.
There's no need to panic though.
Flat lenses could revolutionize optics, researchers say.
Pluto really is crazy!
People suffering from BED deserve a long-term solution and not something that will just mask the disorder’s symptoms.
Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.
It's way older than divers thought.
Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is intriguing.
Scientists want to build and deploy a fully synthetic human genome in human cell lines within 10 years.
Yes, it's actually happening.
The rich really do get richer - a new study found that the richest families in Florence, Italy, have had it good for a while. For 600 years, to be precise.
While robotics and AI research is taking massive strides forward, our social development hasn't really kept up with them.
The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is so intense and radical that it's really hard to believe we're talking about the same individual.
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.
Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this perfect rocket landing from SpaceX can definitely claim that:
Scientists have confirmed that the pharaoh's dagger is indeed not from this Earth - the blade is the "iron of the sky."
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.
The good news is that it's easy to turn this off.
A Canadian think tank found that Canada's status as a 'world superpower' is threatened because the world is shifting away from fossil fuels faster than expected, opting more and more for renewable energy.
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.
Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have developed a technique which allows them to store 360 TB of data for a virtual infinity.
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.
Several tablets from the Roman Age have been uncovered and analyzed following excavation in London, including the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain and the first ever reference to London.
Researchers are now one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp - a marine crustacean strong enough to cut a finger.
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.
Australia's government wants to stick its head in the sand and simply ignore reality instead of making actual efforts to protect the reef.
A massive breakthrough in the fight against the Zika virus was made by Emory University School of Medicine who recently report a possible mechanism for the viruses' migration from mother to baby.
I wish these were around during my first computer science course.
Research showed flowers, and plants in general, generate an electric field and bumblebees can sense it with their tiny hairs.
Now, the cat is both dead and alive and sits in two boxes -- all at the same time. Here goes nothing.
Daniel G. Nocera, the Harvard professor who made headlines five years ago when he unveiled an artificial leaf, recently unveiled his latest work: an engineered bacteria that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into alcohols and biomass.
Could comets have seeded life on Earth?
