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Since 1967, the GB-C virus has intrigued public health officials as it seems to benefit those co-infected with HIV and now Ebola.

Last fall, hackers leaked 10 million email passwords on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Bogdan Calin, the chief technology officer for Web security firm Acunetix, sifted through…

Last week members of the British House of Commons passed a bill legalizing mitochondrial DNA transfers--a process that combines three different sets of DNA to create an…

IBM's premiere artificial intelligence product, Watson, has just taken its first job in Japan. Watson is designed to learn from example, to understand people's questions…

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The air man needs a fresh hit. It’s a beautiful summer morning. Dew shines on the grass. Birds chirp. What a glorious day to contemplate the air. I had contacted the air…

France has a drone problem. Someone keeps flying the remote-controlled devices over French nuclear reactors, which continued even after the country arrested some drone…

Spider silk is valuable stuff, but it's hard to harvest. Synthetic versions based on spider-designed proteins offer a new approach.

It's time for vacation. Everyone piles into the car and heads over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house 488 miles away. Google says it will take you seven…

Boston’s having a rough go with snow. In the past 30 days, six feet of flakes have buried Beantown. There’s so much snow on the ground, in fact, that the city and…

Well that was quick. High upper altitude winds scrubbed the launch for tonight, so SpaceX will have to try again tomorrow. See you then! Update 5:50 p.m. We're getting…

Investor Peter Thiel may be best known for founding PayPal and investing early in Facebook, but it seems he has a soft spot for biology too. Since 2011, the Thiel…

This Valentine’s Day, scrap the overrated roses and chocolate for a more personal token of love. By combining a cardiac monitor with LEDs, you can flash a symbol of…

Consider it a silver lining amid the dark storm clouds of war. DARPA, the Defense Department’s advanced research wing, this Sunday announced progress in a project to make…

It's not just store displays around Valentine's Day. Scientists seem obsessed with chocolate, too. In the last 15 years, scientists have published steadily increasing…

I'm sure (P<0.003) I would fall for anyone who gave me one of these.

While SpaceX aims to launch NASA’s DSCOVR satellite later tonight, the European Space Agency launched its own spaceplane earlier this morning aboard a Vega rocket. Called…

What do the Salem witch trials, LSD, and dinosaurs have in common? They all have some connection to ergot, a fungus known to cause hallucinations, poisoning, and other…

After being forced to scrub its launches all week, SpaceX is ready to launch its Falcon 9 rocket this evening, with the DSCOVR satellite in tow. But it looks like the…

Britain’s first driverless car doesn’t look like a car at all. The electric-powered LUTZ Pathfinder launched Wednesday, wandering the sidewalks of London’s Greenwich…

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