Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.

Digital cameras have transformed the world of photography. Now new technology inspired by the human eye could push the photographic image farther forward by producing improved images with a wider field of view.

Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and a new University of Georgia study suggests they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.

Because their senses are cross-activated, some synesthetes perceive numbers or letters as having colors or days of the week as possessing personalities, even as they function normally in the world.

Forecasters attribute this adjustment to atmospheric and oceanic conditions across the Atlantic Basin that favor storm development - combined with the strong early season activity.

Have you ever wondered how some bugs can stay under water for so long? University of Alberta researcher Morris Flynn, and his colleagues at MIT in Massachusetts, found these insects rely on a bubble that acts as an external lung.

Scientists have discovered a new type of antibiotic in maggot secretions that can tackle up to 12 different strains of MRSA, as well as E. coli and C. difficile.

Scientists have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible.

New research shows that bugs -- both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope -- are responsible for the heat in chili peppers.

In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.