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After a mysterious half-hour delay, the Rosetta spacecraft has phoned home that it is alive and well - and has started chasing comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko     

Each year the best airlines are determined and awarded accordingly.

Cows, pigs and sheep have been fitted with a silicone implant that generates small amounts of energy from the body's natural rhythms – enough to power a pacemaker     

Being healthy can make a person happy, but happiness itself may also lead to better health, according to a new study.

Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the country, engineers say.

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset. Though it is still a prototype, each time Oculus unveils a new update, the applause grows louder. The most recent version, dubbed Crystal Cove, received almost uniformly awed...

All the latest on newscientist.com: the year winter never ended, rousing Rosetta, squid that need spectacles, Africa's long-lost lake, Mars doughnut and more     

It's difficult to judge distance in the open ocean, but bigfin reef squid have evolved a solution: part of their visual field is completely out of focus     

The Wellcome Library's stunning collection of images reveal centuries of our quest to understand the human body and its illnesses - and they're now free     

(Phys.org) --With the rise of social media, it is possible to organize public demonstrations on larger scales and in less time than ever before. In response, some governments are trying to decide how to regulate and impe...

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) reveal the physical phenomenon that explains beer's rapid transformation from a liquid to a foamy state as the result of an impact. This research has applications in ...

Until recently measuring a 27-dimensional quantum state would have been a time-consuming, multistage process using a technique called quantum tomography, which is similar to creating a 3D image from many 2D ones. Researc...

Tension is running high at mission control, where our reporter is waiting with scientists to find out if the world's first comet-lander can succeed     

Sunshine on your skin may lower your blood pressure, a new study finds.

In the year 536 the sun dimmed and the world shivered, leading to famine, plague and the fall of empires. New clues point to an double-whammy apocalypse (full text available to subscribers)     

(Phys.org) --A team of researchers working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has physically demonstrated that it is possible to create a mirror from material that is optically manipulated. In their paper publi...

Many fitness trackers now include features to track your sleep habits, with some products claiming to distinguish between different stages of sleep, but sleep experts are skeptical of their accuracy.

Moms-to-be who can't wait to find out if they're carrying a boy or a girl may be tempted to use 'Skull Theory,' but this method of looking at the shape of the baby's skull on ultrasound doesn't have any science behind it...

In 1964, two physicists independently proposed the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks.

For the last several years, much of the attention in particle physics has focused on the Higgs Boson, so one could be forgiven thinking that the rest of the subatomic particle world has been figured out. In reality, howe...

Money isn't the only thing that makes bosses like their jobs. Work-life balance and family happiness are better for bosses, too.

There's a tipping point when it comes to how many jobs on your resume is a turnoff for employers.