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Before the computer era, understanding the games of the world championships was difficult even for strong club chess players.

(Phys.org) --New collaborative research, carried out by Dr. Vitaly P. Panov, Research Fellow, and Jagdish K Vij, Honorary Professor of Electronic Materials of Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering, Department of...

First crop circles, now this? Video of an enormous ice circle spinning in a river in North Dakota is making its way around the Internet after a hunter filmed the strange phenomenon last Saturday. The footage shows the ic...

This time-lapse space wallpaper shows Comet ISON approaching and leaving during its slingshot around the sun -- represented by the white circle -- on Nov. 28, 2013. The ISON images clearly outline the curve of the comet'...

Individual decisions, not just a situation, caused abuses at Abu Ghraib, says USAF Academy psychology professor George Mastroianni.

Perhaps you recall the vuvuzela, the plastic horn that provided the buzzy soundtrack for the 2010 World Cup? Well, next year's World Cup in Brazil has a new signature instrument, and thankfully, scientists have already d...

All the latest on newscientist.com: how you change at night, why you should accept you're just a brain, beer bricks, synthetic cell copies RNA and more     

Climate models predict that the torrential rain and severe droughts created by El Niño's sibling will be typical by 2050 if nothing is done to stem warming     

This week in science, we pondered the curious comeback story of the wild turkey, found out why a beer bottle foams over when you tap the top of it, and followed the trail from a polar bear hair to a

Call it a cosmic holiday miracle. The much-anticipated Comet ISON appeared to disintegrate during its Thanksgiving Day slingshot around the sun Thursday, but something -- it seems -- may have survived.

Cosmobot SAR-1 will join a growing zoo of robots in space - and will be the first android designed to leave the space station, taking the pressure off humans     

In a new study, scientists say they've found that men and women tend to have different "sexual regrets." A research team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles surveyed nearly 25,000 people, ask...

In a new study, scientists say they've found that men and women tend to have different "sexual regrets." A research team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles surveyed nearly 25,000 people, ask...

The properties of these lead bricks recovered from ancient shipwrecks are ideal for experiments in particle physics. Scientists from the CDMS dark matter detection project in Minnesota (USA) and from the CUORE neutrino o...

It can be hard to accept that our hopes and dreams are just functions of our brains, says neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland, but it shouldn't scare us (full text available to subscribers)     

The invasive vine known as kudzu has twined itself into Southern culture, but it's a big environmental headache, causing crop and property damage and loss of biodiversity. And now the vine's coming north.

World War I-era apparatus for electric treatment of psychological maladies Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine Thanks to vast improvements in hygiene, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques ...

Night is more than a separate time, it's a separate place altogether, freed from the constraints of our daytime lives. Step with us into darkness (full text available to subscribers)     

(Phys.org) --A team of scientists who specialize in multiple-choice test assessment at Brock and Trent University's in Canada has conducted a study to find out if students could use Benford's law to help them pass multip...

A team of researchers from the IMP Vienna together with collaborators from the Vienna University of Technology established a new microscopy technique which greatly enhances resolution in the third dimension. In a simple ...

Almost all the mass of an atom is concentrated in its nucleus in the form of protons and neutrons. Some nuclei are intrinsically unstable, existing for only a short time before decaying into stable nuclei. Understanding ...

'Smart glass' can switch from transparent to opaque at the flick of a switch and is increasingly used in cars, aircraft and homes to reduce the Sun's glare and filter out infrared light and heat. Masaki Nakano and collea...