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Communities that sign up with Recovers receive a personalized site that allows them to coordinate relief efforts more efficiently. The platform’s latest challenge: Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Ekso Bionics is developing exoskeleton-like devices combined with robotics that will help people with walking difficulties get moving again.

Honda’s Miimo, recently released in the UK, is only the latest version to appear on the market, but despite the appeal of an outdoor equivalent of the Roomba, sales have been slow.

Richer countries attempting to keep up with demand by fishing the waters of poorer countries need to rein it in, according to a newly released United Nations report.

The mineralogical makeup is consistent with that of volcanic soil similar to what’s found on the sides of Mauna Kea.

Approximately 20 bears are living on an iceberg off the Canadian coast, challenging assumptions about where the animals normally spend their summers.

A new report claims that due to climate change, crops from the banana family may end up replacing potatoes as a major food source.

For the amateur astronomer in your life: 16 terabytes’ worth of data from the orbiting telescope dating back to its 2009 launch. The science team wants help deciphering it all.

A professor has over 100,000 titles available on Amazon UK, all of them “written” by — not “with the help of”, but “by” — software he created.

According to a recent opinion poll, 80 percent of them would feel “lost” without it, compared to 60 percent of older adults.  

The initiative has added works from new partners as well as a Hangout feature that lets users share and discuss their favorite pieces.

A new survey confirms it: Games are the most used apps on mobile devices. For tablets in particular, games and other types of entertainment take up nearly four-fifths of total usage.

With help from a special government commission, publisher Grandpapier.org is one of several initiatives helping “the home of the comic book” regain some industry status.

People in Italy, Spain, and other economically struggling countries are flooding German-language classrooms in hopes of securing better-paying work.

Protests against the building of France’s first Mormon place of worship reveals unease about the decline of Catholicism and the (slight) rise of Christian evangelism.

A recent report shows that, while French is still hanging on in Quebec, it’s slipping in the rest of the provinces as more immigrants from Asia enter the country and choose English as their second language.

After dropping a defamation case against a local cartoonist, President Jacob Zuma is proposing the creation of a media appeals tribunal to help ensure press freedom. Industry experts say self-regulation would be better.

The success of this weekend’s protest against a chemical plant’s expansion underlines the growing care the government is having to take with its restless, wired middle class.

The director of the world’s largest physics experiment—the CERN laboratories in Europe—has called a meeting to discuss how scientists may engage more effectively with faith-based groups.

A new study funded by the National Institute of Aging at the National Institutes of Health has established that exercising just a little longer than usual can improve your outlook on life. 

Evolutionary pressures have made women more attracted to sexy men during the peak of their ovulation cycle, say researchers at UCLA who have completed an interesting new study.

Losing just a couple nights’ sleep is enough to cause hormonal imbalances in the body. The result is that we feel more stress and less satiated by the quantity of food we eat. 

While the presidential candidates have been quiet about their mental health agendas, President Obama is the clear choice for those concerned with mental health parity. 

A new medical procedure which swaps some DNA contained in a woman’s egg with a third person’s could help eliminate certain genetic diseases, if the public finds the treatment ethical. 

The American cupcake craze has come to savory foods. Dishes like pizza and lasagna are being served in dessert tins, perhaps because we have an evolutionary attraction to cute things. 

New research suggests that while moderate drinking does not poorly affect the brain in the moment, negative effects can build up over time and make it harder to learn new things. 

New research from Oxford University concludes that the physical effect of laughing helps us enjoy a funny moment, just as physical exercise helps us feel better emotionally. 

Spanish cancer survivor Albert Espinosa says we need to rethink our traditional notions of friendship and allow ourselves to form relationships with people who are different from us.

A new online platform encourages Ukrainians to report election violations at a time when corruption has pushed back some of the gains made towards democracy.

Dutch engineers are working on several ways to modernize Europe’s highways, including lanes that change color in bad weather and charge electric cars while they’re in motion.