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Credit: Sun & Chan/U of T Engineering ATMs and coffee shops such as Tim Hortons, Starbucks and Second Cup make ideal locations for placing automated...

Credit: Gianluca Fontana/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Borrowing from nature is an age-old theme in science. Form and function go hand-in-hand in the natural world and...

Credit: Arcadio Castillo, STRI Dead zones affect dozens of coral reefs around the world and threaten hundreds more according to a new study by Smithsonian...

Credit: NASA/Frankie Martin Bacteria may mutate more rapidly in space and scientists theorize patterns of those mutations could help predict how pathogens become resistant to...

A small protein that could protect the brain from stroke-induced injury has been discovered by researchers from The University of Queensland and Monash University. UQ...

Credit: Trinity College Dublin Microbiologists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new way to prevent bacteria from growing on medical devices such as hip...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- As the world ends, will you lock arms and sing "Kumbayah" or embark on a path of law-breaking, anti-social behavior? A new...

Chicago's red-light cameras reduce serious injury crashes at intersections where they are placed and also have a measurable "spillover effect" that improves safety at intersections...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 16, 2017 - Why are so many supermarket tomatoes tasteless and rock hard? In the 1990s, breeders developed...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole...

Credit: NASA Orbital ATK is targeted to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit for a resupply mission to the International Space Station March 24, 2017...

Credit: Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - Prion diseases are scary, incurable and fatal. They first gained notoriety when cows became infected by prion proteins...

Credit: Kevin Soobrian LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 20, 2017-- A multi-institutional team of researchers from Canada and the US has demonstrated steady state lasing with...

Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of marketing that merges first world...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature's hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their...