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Albert Einstein was famous for many things, but his greatest brainchild is the theory of relativity. It forever changed our understanding of space and time.

Unlocked at level 71 early in the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers main scenario quest, Holminster Switch is the first new dungeon of the expansion. Its triple stack of bosses can surprise and confuse you, but these bri...

An entirely new class of astronomical object—a synestia—may be the key to solving the lingering mysteries of lunar origin --

Mobile motor could pave the way for robots to assemble complex structures -- including other robots.

Police across the country reported the issue on Tuesday morning. Last year, AT&T was fined $5 million for outages that prevented 911 calls in 2017

(Pensoft Publishers) New to science species of Australian jumping spider was named after Hamburg-born fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019) after the arachnid reminded its discoverers of the designer. Intrigued by the ...

(Vienna University of Technology) One of the fundamental physical constants, the 'weak axial vector coupling constant' (gA), has now been measured with very high precision for the first time. It is needed to explain nucl...

Summer is finally here, and that means lots and lots of hot, sunny days and plenty of trips to the local pool or nearby water park. If taking a dip in the public pool is your favorite way too cool down, the Centers for D...

Russia's plans to build a hypersonic weapon system that can travel at more than 20 times the speed of sound, and also evade US missile defenses, has predictably rattled the world. Last year, Russian President Vladimir Pu...

‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, probably isn’t an alien spaceship, a new study concludes. That doesn’t mean the mystery is over, however, with the same study citing ...

For as easy as it is to poke fun at Elon Musk's online shenanigans, there's no denying that he was able to revolutionize the auto industry in a relatively short period of time. Thanks to the initial success of the Model ...

A recent article prompted John to pull together a reference page for some fundamental changes in the structure of macOS Catalina.

Food, alcohol, and certain drugs all act to reduce the activity of hunger neurons and to release reward signals in the brain, but alcohol and drugs rely on a different pathway than does food, according to a new study. Th...

Researchers say that women who are 41 weeks pregnant should not be alarmed, as the increased risk is low -- equivalent to one additional stillbirth for every 1,449 pregnancies, compared to delivering at 40 weeks.

Adolescent depression increases with exposure to pesticides, a study in the Ecuadorian Andes shows.

Researchers have developed a unique method for studying proteins which could open new doors for medicinal research. Through capturing proteins in a nano-capsule made of glass, the researchers have been able to create a u...

Domestic violence survivors commonly suffer repeated blows to the head and strangulation, trauma that has lasting effects that should be widely recognized by advocates, health care providers, law enforcement and others w...

A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks. Researchers identified the weakness and notified the software developers, who issued a pat...

Intermittent fasting is known to improve sensitivity to the blood glucose-lowering hormone insulin and to protect against fatty liver. Scientists have now discovered that mice on an intermittent fasting regimen also exhi...

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(Credit: Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock) Within the rainforests of Salonga National Park, in the heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bonobos wade through swamps. The slender, three-and-a-half-foot tall apes ar...

There are two sound velocities in a Bose-Einstein condensate. In addition to the normal sound propagation there is second sound, which is a quantum phenomenon. Scientists in Ludwig Mathey's group from the University of H...