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Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF, Philips Research, and the Autonomous University of Madrid have identified a new type of particle that might make quantum condensation possible at room temperature. The particles, so ...

Join a team of researchers underwater as they use a panoramic camera system, a remote-controlled robot and other high-tech tools to document coral bleaching     

A new approach is helping fight both hunger and overfishing in Mozambique.

What motivates people to help others? Could altruistic behavior be influenced by genes?

Does the computer owe its high performance to bizarre quantum effects?

Rather than powering down your smartphone or laptop when you board your next flight, try taking advantage of "Airplane Mode," a useful feature available on many portable electronic devices.

Kneading is a common behavior seen in domestic cats, in which the feline pushes in and out with its front paws, alternating between left and right. It's unclear exactly why cats knead, but a number of hypotheses exist.

Researchers have discovered a subtle twist in the primeval light that formed shortly after the universe came into being. They hope it could reveal new secrets about the moments after the Big Bang.

This 1875 map of the prevalence of sphyilis in the Union draws from one of the U.S. government's earliest sources of big data: Civil War conscription records. In the age before antibiotics, sphyilis rendered an individua...

Observations of the dark cloud SDC 335.579-0.292 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) have given astronomers the best view yet of a monster star in the process of forming, as seen in this stunnin...

Twitter has elevated the humble pound sign, or #, into a powerful social networking tool. The symbol is the basis of a hashtag, a way for users to organize Twitter messages (tweets) around certain topics -- and potential...

Not everything can be taken on faith.

Countries tallying their total greenhouse gas emissions can now get a better estimate thanks to two new reports adopted this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Google Street View image-data regarding the presence or absence of caterpillar nests from an invasive moth, finding it was as accurate as field-collected data 96 percent of the time.

People are mostly water. So are all mammals. Sometimes, we mammals are made of a little more water than we care for, which is when it becomes time to get rid of some - if you know what I mean. Treadmill mouse has to go, ...

Galaxies may look pretty and delicate, with their swirls of stars of many colours - but don't be fooled. At the heart of every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole, including in our own Milky Way.

The English city of York has long loved Richard III, as highlighted by a 600-year-old manuscript on display for the first time. Devotees of the king oppose plans to bury his recently discovered skeleton in Leicester, arg...

A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull from Eastern Europe has been pitched as disproving a decades-old paradigm in human evolution.

Observations from NASA's Kepler spacecraft have uncovered a 'tilted' solar system, a finding that gives clues as to how some planets come to orbit their stars on paths that are misaligned... --

The United States Navy is upgrading its fleet of aircraft carriers with a series of next-generation ships that will be able to accommodate new technologies, including more carrier-launched drones.

An amazing new view of Saturn, created by amateur image processer Gordan Ugarkovic, shows the planet and its rings in all their glory.

Does D-Wave's computer owe its high performance to bizarre quantum effects?   Photo courtesy of D-Wave Systems, Inc. An experimental computer made by a Canadian company has proved its ability to solve increasingly compl...