Robotic surgery - commanding a robotic arm to perform delicate surgical tasks - has become more and more popular in medicine
In 1868, Darwin set out to quantify human emotion in a series of novel experiments, which researchers are recreating today
Simply get elected president, and you'll have a fair chance of some newly discovered creature inheriting your moniker
A huge asteroid will pass near Earth today, and you can watch it live online
Oil companies want to pull their rigs from the Gulf, but environmentalists are saying "no"
More than a decade of planning will come together this week for a five-day push through three kilometers of ice
In southwestern France, catfish are throwing themselves on the shore to catch pigeons
A multidecadal blip in temperature and rainfall patterns may have spurred the rise of the Mongol Empire
Apollo 17 took off forty years ago today
Reports from Doha don't provide much hope that any progress has been made on the increasingly urgent issue of global climate change
The fittest kids on the playground are also the ones who excel in the classroom at standardized tests and good grades
Research shows that lions are quickly disappearing across Africa's once-thriving Savannah due to human population growth and massive land use conversion
Want to keep your enemies at bay? How about throwing a jar of scorpions at them?
NASA scientists created global composite images using cloud-free nights to reveal an unprecedented look at how our planet appears at night
And city birds are stuffing their nests with cigarette butts to poison potential parasites
When a person lies, the area on and around the nose increases in temperature, giving away the anxiety lurking below the surface of an otherwise cool facade
Scientists have figured out a way to determine the age of your lobster
Frogfish are really good at blending in with their environment - particularly with the sponges that they live on. But they're also crazy fast hunters
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