A 13-year-old boy was injured after lightning struck his Texas home and the electrical current traveled through the home's wiring, shocking him while he used a computer, according to authorities. The incident occurred Tuesday in Cypress, a Hou...
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From an underground "forest" to spectacular orchids, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, discovered 74 new plants and 15 fungi last year. Many of the mysterious species were found in unlikely places, such as on t...
The UK is to rejoin the EU's flagship scientific research scheme, Horizon, the government has announced. UK-based scientists and institutions will be able to apply for money from the £81bn (€95bn) fund from today. Asso...
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What is a data scientist? The job title sprang out of nowhere as technology firms have scrambled to find people to perform sophisticated analytical tasks over the last decade. Reports of six-figure salaries abounded as businesses...
A team of scientists is being sent to the South Atlantic to study the giant iceberg A68a. The 3,900-sq-km behemoth is currently drifting offshore of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia where it threatens to ...
Yes, the novel coronavirus can survive on surfaces. No, it doesn't seem to matter. Last week, a new coronavirus outbreak in New Zealand -- where cases were originally thought to be linked to frozen food -- again begged the often asked but r...
Apple has confirmed it will transition its Mac laptop and desktop computers to its own ARM-based processors. The move means that Macs will run on the same type of chips as the firm's iPhones and iPads, rather than Intel's. Intel had faced p...
What is gluten, and what does it mean to be cooking with gluten? See and feel gluten with this simple kitchen experiment....
Canada's Quebec province has denied immigrant status to a French citizen because she was unable to demonstrate adequate French-language proficiency. Quebec rejected Emilie Dubois' application apparently because part of her university thesis ...
From orange juice to zinc lozenges, chicken soup to garlic capsules, there are plenty of home remedies for the common cold. But is there any evidence that they work? ...
A teacher in Ghana who educates his students on computer technology - without any computers - has become a hit online. The man from Kumasi used his blackboard to meticulously draw a diagram of the popular Microsoft Word program. "Teach...
The concept of tipping was born in England and has spread across the world - but why do some of us tip better than others, and why do some countries not tip at all? Tipping is said to haveoriginatedin 16th Century England, when...
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The still-astonishing April 30, 1965 LIFE cover image by the pioneering Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson features an 18-week-old fetus inside its amniotic sac. As the cover text notes, the color image of the fetus and placenta was a photo...
By MALCOLM RITTER - AP Science Writer | AP – Thu, Sep 22, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — It sounds like science fiction: While volunteers watched movie clips, a scanner watched their brains. And from their brain ac...
AP – Thu, Sep 15, 2011 This image provided by NASA shows an artist's depiction showing a discovery by NASA's Kepler mission of a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, ...
In a back-to-school speech in Philadelphia a few days ago, President Barack Obama urged(敦促) students to study hard, even at subjects in which they don't think they can excel(擅长). \\\"But just because you are not the best at something toda...
First Direct Proof of Dark Matter(暗物质) Whirling around Earth at 17,500 miles (28,163 kilometers) an hour, the Hubble Space Telescope(哈勃空间望远镜) has captured some of the most detailed pictures yet of space objects and activities. B...