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No more lines in your 3-D printed objects! Desktop 3-D printers often have a resolution problem. Resolution refers to the size of the stream of molten plastic laid down by the machine in layers; if the layers are too big...

-- Physicists Unveil Results Helping Explain Universe -- Rare Phenomenon Discovered --Provides Way to Test Models of a New Physics -- New tests back concept for particle physics: CERN -- T2K neutrino experiment reports n...

This crowdfunded Freedom Of Information Act algorithm seeks to liberate guarded knowledge. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), first enacted in 1966 provides a way for citizens, activists, and journalists to coax info...

The rate at which a Bs meson decays into two muons has been confirmed - and it holds no clues to physics beyond the standard view

If orbiting star pairs are able to settle into a decent rhythm, they can grow old together in harmony - and maybe even foster new life

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Dubbed "Pandora viruses", jumbo-sized viruses have been discovered that are so unusual they might need their own, new domain of life

Wasps of different species can mate successfully if we tinker with their gut bugs, backing the "hologenome" idea that bacteria shape their hosts' evolution

It's time we start thinking about the microbes that live on - and in - our buildings and gadgets, says ecologist and engineer Jessica Green (full text available to subscribers)

Rioting behavior isn't so different from shopping behavior--an insight researchers want to use to keep riots at bay. After riots tore across London in 2011, a team of researchers from University College London began usin...

The world's first facial recognition payment system lets you ditch your credit card. Finland-based company Uniqul is preparing to release a payment system that uses facial recognition software to link a customer with his...

Today at the European Physical Society meeting in Stockholm, the international T2K collaboration announced definitive observation of muon neutrino to electron neutrino transformation. In 2011, the collaboration announced...

Concerned about the impact of climate change on global security, the CIA is part-funding a US National Academy of Sciences geoengineering study

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Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHC...

Telling which identical twin committed a crime is tough, but knowing how the face ages may help forensic experts identify them

While cutting emissions is necessary to curb global warming, some renewable and clean energy sources are thirstier than fossil fuels

We cannot afford to let figures vital for assessing our wellbeing fall victim to austerity cuts, warns a policy researcher

Expletives not included. In the first 26 hours after the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, Twitter exploded. But how do we figure out the balance of interaction on Twitter? What were p...