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With 22.3 million digits, new prime number sets record

January 21, 2016

With 22.3 million digits, new prime number sets record

Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have discovered a record-setting prime number that's so large it would take about 6,000 pages of paper to print.

Wood-based replacement for Styrofoam?

January 20, 2016

Wood-based replacement for Styrofoam?

Four4Four: Science

Medicine cabinet and personal health products go digital at CES

January 8, 2016

Medicine cabinet and personal health products go digital at CES

You know the rule: It’s rude to peek inside someone’s medicine cabinet.

Here's the science behind North Korea's H-bomb claim

January 6, 2016

Here's the science behind North Korea's H-bomb claim

Did North Korea really join the H-bomb club?

Egg-shaped pods: Coffins of the future?

January 5, 2016

Egg-shaped pods: Coffins of the future?

Italian designers have developed an egg-shaped pod similar to a coffin that lets the deceased support new life after their own death.

Four new elements added to periodic table

January 4, 2016

Four new elements added to periodic table

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them.

Science breakthrough? Physicists may have discovered Higgs boson relative

December 16, 2015

Science breakthrough? Physicists may have discovered Higgs boson relative

Could scientists have found a particle heavier than the famous Higgs boson?

Englert and Higgs win Nobel physics prize for subatomical particle research

December 12, 2015

Englert and Higgs win Nobel physics prize for subatomical particle research

Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass.

Men have a better sense of direction than women, study says

December 8, 2015

Men have a better sense of direction than women, study says

In classic men vs. women moment, it looks like there might be a partial answer to the age-old road trip question, “honey, are we lost?”

Physicists unveil new particle results helping explain universe

December 5, 2015

Physicists unveil new particle results helping explain universe

Scientists at the world's top lab for particle physics say they've witnessed an extremely rare event that adds certainty to how they think the universe began.