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Long periods of desk work or TV viewing can slash your life expectancy, even if you work out every day. So what can you do about doing nothing? (full text available to subscribers)

At the beginning of July 2013, the Helmholtz Virtual Institute (VI) in which JAI is one of the partners, officially started. This VI is aimed at research on plasma wakefield acceleration of highly relativistic electrons....

Fast radio bursts have baffled astronomers since their discovery six years ago, but now more examples have been found, and they are giving up their secrets

A drone zipping over fields can spot the colour variations that give away weeds amongst crops, before sending in a ground vehicle to spray the densest patches

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Abandoned landmines injure or kill hundreds of people around the world every year. Electronic training mines could make mine clearance safer

A 15-metre-wide ring of magnets to be used in experiments on subatomic particles is travelling by road, river and sea to its new home at Fermilab in Illinois

Geneva, 4 July 2013. From 27 to 30 September 2013, CERN[1] is putting on a long weekend of events and activities as a way of sharing its research and discoveries with its community and the wider public.

A smartphone app catalogues photos according to the angle from which they were taken, letting the user swipe to circle a scene la The Matrix

PH is the first case of a person who hears speech before seeing a speaker's lips move. His badly dubbed world reveals timing mechanisms in the brain

Despite government indifference, renewables are taking over the world. Imagine what could happen with some serious backing

A year on from the discovery of the particle that endows others with mass, physicists are still joyfully wrestling with some of its more intriguing mysteries

In a superfast solar cycle, the star Tau Boo swaps its magnetic poles at least every two years, and a big, gassy offspring may be to blame