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Artificial intelligence can share our natural ability to make numeric snap judgments. Researchers observed this knack for numbers in a computer model composed of virtual brain cells, or neurons, ...

For the second time, President Donald Trump has announced plans to pull the plug on U.S. support for the World Health Organization. The global health and humanitarian organization works to eradicate ...

A noninvasive treatment called high-intensity focused ultrasound helped relieve the shaking, stiffness and pain that ...

As Congo’s Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak grows, public health responders are turning to old-school tactics to fight it as ...

The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may ...

To keep you current on the science behind hot button issues in the news, we’re expanding our coverage of the social sciences ...

Metals like copper oxidize — reacting with oxygen in the air — but gold doesn’t, thanks to a quick switch in atom arrangement ...

Identifying children with early signs of type 1 diabetes makes a difference to their health. A new study suggests wider ...

The remains of at least 37 people in an ancient stone 'jar' in northeastern Laos suggest that thousands similar jars were ...

A tall buoy with a rotating pair of eyes was supposed to scare birds away from caught fish. Like scarecrows, it didn't work ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...