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When scientists claimed in 2005 they'd recovered soft tissue from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found in Montana, skeptics jumped at the opportunity to cry foul. How exactly could soft tissue survive mil...

Scientists at NASA are investigating whether black holes, which can be both petite and monstrous, also come in an in-between size. According to scientists, black holes can be about 10 times the size of the sun, or can bo...

A new theoretical model offers a fix for the heating effect that destroys Bose-Einstein condensate when physicists view the super-chilled gas with lasers.

A Pair Of Robots On A Stroll The LS3, a robotic pack-mule developed by Boston Dynamics, is the latest bot to be greeted with ubiquitous Terminator quips. Boston Dynamics The BigDog family of robots, developed by Boston D...

Using quantitative models of bacterial growth, a team biophysicists has discovered the bizarre way by which antibiotic resistance allows bacteria to multiply in the presence of antibiotics, a growing health problem in ho...

A study demonstrates a new mechanism involving a signaling protein and its receptor that may block the formation of new blood vessels and cancer growth.

A byproduct of cholesterol functions like the hormone estrogen to fuel the growth and spread of the most common types of breast cancers, researchers report.

Scientists have determined the most detailed picture yet of a crucial part of the hepatitis C virus, which the virus uses to infect liver cells. The new data reveal unexpected structural features of this protein.

Genetic information can now be copied inside simple cells designed to mimic primordial life, but only if they are given a chemical made from citric acid     

(Phys.org) --Italian company Energy Catalyzer (shortened to ECAT) has announced that it is right now taking preorders for its ECAT 1MW portable cold fusion plant. Founded by Italian scientist Andrea Rossi, the plant has ...

A study published points, for the first time, to the gene trkC as a factor in susceptibility to a panic disorder. The researchers define the specific mechanism for the formation of fear memories which will help in the de...

Explore the still-unfamiliar world of the night: the eerie ways it can transform us, the creatures that thrive in it, and our efforts to banish it     

Adding a by-product of the brewing process - spent grain - to bricks can boost their strength and insulation     

All the latest on newscientist.com: all about the night, Alzheimer's = brain diabetes? our inbred ancestry, disaster drones, comet crunch time and more     

A statistical tool called Benford's law has been shown to fit existing exoplanet data, supporting the notion that the galaxy is brimming with alien worlds     

Show some love to the arteries in your legs, not just the ones in your heart.

The US government is challenging researchers to use cameras to ID people by unique features like their gait or the shape of their ears     

(Phys.org) --In the world of biomedical science, optical microscopy rules - and nonlinear optical microscopy, which uses ultrashort pulse lasers as the illumination source, allows researchers to glean much greater detail...

Long coils of optical waveguides any structure that can guide light, like conventional optical fiber can be used to create a time delay in the transmission of light. Such photonic delays are useful in military applicatio...

-- X-ray tests: Night at the collider -- A Nobel pursuit: NIU STEM Café will explain importance of finding mysterious Higgs boson -- Searching for Cosmic Accelerators Via IceCube -- Step Into The Large Hadron Collider A...

THE Stirling engine, the brainchild of a 19th-century Scottish clergyman, is an invention that seems cursed by the gods of innovation neither to succeed nor to fail comprehensively and thus be forgotten. In 1816 Robert S...

WHEN most animals die, nature likes to tidy up by making their bodies disappear. The remains get eaten by scavengers, bones are scattered, tissues rot away and anything left over tends to get destroyed by the elements. V...