A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, provides the strongest evidence to date that cancer is extremely ...

As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it’s not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar ...

As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it’s not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company, much less regarding allegations of cheating ...

There is perhaps no scholar more qualified to dissect the world's energy systems on a macro scale – from food and agriculture to electricity and fuel – than Vaclav Smil. The 81-year-old Distinguished ...

(via PBS Terra) The Cascadia Subduction Zone, just off the Pacific Northwest coast, is building toward a massive earthquake and tsunami. But new research reveals an even more terrifying possibility: ...

(via PBS Eons) What does it mean to be a “semi-aquatic” dinosaur? Was it wading in the shallows, or could it have been a skilled swimmer? Each scenario paints a very different picture of Spinosaurus, ...

Warming ocean temperatures can have similar effects. In the US, the European green crab is among the highest profile invasive species, having caused significant ecological damage along the East Coast ...

(via Veritasium) How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures.

(via SciShow) We've all heard of the Rosetta Stone, either the language-learning software or the stone itself. But how much do you really know about it? Let's get into the full history of this icon of ...

When we think of hernias, we often think of our abdomen or groin, and that is where hernias most often occur. But a hernia simply describes when a tissue or organ escapes or protrudes from the cavity ...