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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have developed an imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second–fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom. As Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor in M.I.T.’s Media Lab, explains in the video below, a high-speed camera can capture the image of a bullet mid-flight. The M.I.T

We "naked apes" aren't as hirsute as our primate cousins. We still have an ape-like density of hair follicles--but we sprout out peach fuzz, instead of a thick coat. Those downy hairs may be more than an evolutionary leftover, though

Infant mortality has continued to drop in the U.S. during the past several decades. But stillbirths--when a fetus dies after 20 or more weeks of gestation--have remained relatively steady--and account for almost as many deaths as those of babies who die before their first birthday .

One of the seemingly ideal and direct solutions to climate change is to efficiently vacuum up greenhouse gases straight from the atmosphere. But a new study finds that such a proposal is very far-fetched and tremendously expensive.

"In 1983, when I went to Haiti, the wave of sentiment that crashed over me was not just, gosh, this is appalling--it’s unfair." [More]

The National Audubon Society's 112th Christmas Bird Count begins December 14, 2011 [More]

GENEVA--The two largest collaborations of physicists in history Tuesday presented intriguing but tentative clues to the existence of the Higgs boson , the elementary particle thought to endow ordinary matter with mass.

What do the results of the Higgs boson , the "God particle," mean for science ? Join researchers from the Perimeter Institute, Canada's premier center for theoretical physics, for an interactive, live webcast as they discuss the latest findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the biggest, most ambitious scientific experiment in human history.

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In spite of the mind-expanding perks of city life , urban living is known to increase the chances of developing mental disorders such as schizophrenia . [More]

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At the core of our Milky Way galaxy lies a black hole. Like all black holes, its gravitational pull is so strong that it swallows anything that ventures too close--even light.

In 2010 there were 34.3 births among every thousand girls between the ages of 15 and 19.