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Physics engines may form the backbone of many video games, but very rarely does physics take center stage in a game's plot. In my experience, most educational games that aim to teach physics lack the immersion and fun fa...

-- Russian scientist leads team in particle discovery -- Crowd-sourced computing platform reaches one trillion events -- ATLAS Limits On Dark Matter -- At the cutting edge of science

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy may have flared up some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors learned to walk upright     

A recent study out of Oxford University found that almost half of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to being taken over by computers as artificial intelligence continues to improve. The study, based on 702 detailed job listings, ...

A key factor in our evolution is so deeply ingrained in our lives that we barely notice it. Disgustologist Valerie Curtis lifts the lid on manners (full text available to subscribers)     

Time to strap on your virtual flippers - the Plankton Portal project is taking citizen scientists on a tour of amazing sights under the sea     

Horse Ebooks On Twitter, there is an account by the name of @Horse_ebooks. It is perhaps the most famous nonsense account on the entire social network, spewing out non-sequiturs and bits of stuttering oddness like "As yo...

A new illusion makes you believe you own an artificial finger that you can't see or feel, a trick that hints how the brain works out where its body is     

Journalist Alan Weisman's latest book, Countdown, explores how we can sustainably manage a population of seven billion people.

BioSuit Dava Newman View Photo Gallery Textile design is one of those fields that seems like it never changes all that much. Wallpaper is wallpaper. A rug is a rug. Right? Wrong. A new crop of tech-minded designers is ad...

Now that ununpentium, the 115th element, has been confirmed, what lies ahead?

Surgical robots have performed fairly well in the operating theater in the past decade, helping physicians perform hysterectomies, prostate removals and other complex, yet minimally invasive... --

A robotic arm can fillet farmed fish by first using a camera to capture 3D images of the animal, and work out where best to cut     

(Chandra X-ray Center) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory and telescopes on the ground may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of the universe.

(Harvard University) The principles guiding the growth of intestinal structures called villi are surprisingly similar across chickens, frogs, mice, and snakes. The wrinkling of the inner gut, the researchers found, is in...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Respiratory or cardiovascular arrest in outdoor animals poses a huge challenge to veterinarians. Ventilation equipment is generally hard to operate and requires electricity a...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) The RUB's excellence cluster RESOLV has achieved successful results only a few months after its inception: by applying nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, an international team comprised i.e...

(University of Michigan) Policymakers need to rethink the idea of promoting biofuels to protect the climate because the methods used to justify such policies are inherently flawed, according to a University of Michigan e...

(DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory) New research from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory quantifies the potential impacts of increasing wind and solar power generation on the operators of...

Mermaids -- legendary half-human, half marine creatures -- have fascinated people for centuries and inspired many "sightings."

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a condition that involves chronic inflammation in all or part of the digestive tract.