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The octobot is powered by a chemical reaction and controlled with a soft logic board. A reaction inside the bot transforms a small amount...

The 160-square-foot stream table was designed to progressively “grow” a mechanically driven fold across which small “rivers” flowed, causing erosion.Credit: Image courtesy of University...

Why do some people want to live a very long time, while others would prefer to die relatively young? In a latest study, a...

Up-close views from the Voyagers, like this one from Voyager 2, showed Saturn and its rings as never before.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Saturn, with its alluring rings...

This artist's impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star...

Credit: Flickr/luuq Simple changes in how we cook could go a long way towards preventing diabetes, say researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at...

For people with weight problems, news headlines in recent years may have brought relief, as researchers studying the microscopic creatures inside our bodies reported...

After an extreme global warming 252 million years ago, a severe mass extinction of life took place on Earth. A new study in the...

Often described as the blueprint of life, DNA contains the instructions for making every living thing from a human to a house fly. But in...

A recent study published by Brazilian researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Institute...

In a landmark Texas A&M study, desks that encourage elementary school-age children to stand during class are shown to cut down on obesity and...