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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...

Genetic information inside simple cells designed to mimic primordial life has been copied, with the help of a chemical made from citric acid     

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 ...

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     

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 Van Allen belts, which were discovered in 1958 by some of the first artificial satellites, are a bane of those satellites' successors. The outer belt, which begins at an altitude of 13,000km above Earth's surface and...

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...

GENETICS often progresses by breaking things. Early experiments used naturally broken genes--mutations--to work out the basic rules. Then geneticists found out how to induce mutations with radiation and chemicals. That g...

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...

Bizarre mammal-like reptiles that roamed the Earth 240 million years ago pooped in communal latrines, the oldest known evidence by millions of years of this behavior. The discovery of high concentrations of fossilized po...

A project that revives traditional food knowledge for Pacific Northwest tribes could leave you thinking about your food choices this Thanksgiving.

Cranberries, that iconic staple of Thanksgiving Day dinners, are a fruit native to North America that are grown in bogs and were eaten by Native Americans.