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Early treatment answers some questions, raises others

A new White House strategy to counter IEDs takes a surprisingly holistic approach.

The GPS-stabilized Phantom isn't exactly a toy, but that doesn't stop it from being serious fun.

New nominations for energy secretary and EPA head will probably face uphill battles in the Senate.

The arms race between bacteria and viruses just got a microscopic bit hotter.

This screen aspect ratio makes no sense. Embrace the squarer display!

Could you use a few thousand hairs? This robot can find them.

Anheuser-Busch is being sued for watering down their beer, but there's a way to test for that.

It turns out we seriously underestimated the central nervous system.

Like people choosing which path to take from the grocery store, bats develop preferred routes and remember them.

US copyright holders like the RIAA and MPAA have a new weapon to battle piracy. Read on to find out what it is, how it works, and whether you should be scared to snag a torrent of this week's episode of Justified.

A crowd-funded 3-D printing project seeks to make a "some assembly required" gun part.

New telescopic findings help shed light on a black hole physics mystery.

All of the compression algorithms are based on outdated understanding of how the human ear works.

The least crazy aspect of this mission is the desire to do it.

Nap time, anyone?

A Japanese woman has been recognized as the oldest woman on the planet, at age 114. Very impressive! But these six animals would scoff at a mere 114-year-old.

Charlier recently analyzed Richard the Lionheart's heart and an anonymous 13th-century cadaver, saying of the latter that it "was smoked, like salmon or like pork." Nom?

Seventeen years since retiring its last tank capable of air drop, the U.S. Army is in the early stages of developing a new one.