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Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said they had big news to share this week, and they did not disappoint: The researchers said at a press conference on Monday that they found evidence for cosm...

A new and innovative computing machine is currently attracting a great deal of attention in specialist circles. A team under the leadership of Matthias Troyer, a professor at ETH Zurich, has now confirmed that the machin...

Duke engineers have devised a way to improve the efficiency of lithotripsy--the demolition of kidney stones using focused shock waves. After decades of research, all it took was cutting a groove near the perimeter of the...

Lead discoverer John Kovac describes his work at the BICEP2 radio telescope and how his career took him there --

A beginner's guide to the BICEP2 discovery of primordial gravitational waves --

People who eat more of the "good" kinds of fat and less saturated fat may not always have a lower risk of heart disease, a new review suggests.

How, exactly, do powerful empires collapse, and why? Researchers now believe they've found an answer that has troubling implications for today -- because we're clearly on the road to ruin.

The fracture that caused the March 17 Los Angeles earthquake was not on a significant fault and is unlikely to be a new source of major earthquakes.

The view back in time--way back to the origins of the universe--just got clearer. Much clearer.

Launched March 13, Colorado River View lets users "raft" the Grand Canyon and visit popular sites along the way.

Many physicists were toasting Monday's announcement of the detection of primordial gravitational waves. Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde, currently at Stanford University, modified the cosmic inflation theory first proposed by ...

With the official start to spring only days away, March 20, 2014, soon temperatures will be warming and outdoor activities will return in full force, bringing forth new threats to household pets.

Hekla volcano, one of Iceland's most active volcanoes, could be close to erupting, a University of Iceland geoscientist claims.

An increasing number of fitness trackers that are worn on the wrist claim to monitor your heart rate without the need for a chest strap, but how accurate are they?

A team of University of Toronto physicists led by Alex Hayat has proposed a novel and efficient way to leverage the strange quantum physics phenomenon known as entanglement. The approach would involve combining light-emi...

The next time you're taking a nightly stroll downtown, take a minute to count how many people are looking up at the sky. Chances are the number will be small, if it's not zero. Light pollution drowns the brilliance of th...

Roger Dingledine developed and runs a worldwide network to keep Internet users anonymous.

Competition among different families of fungi in the mouth may offer a clue to finding new treatment for fungal diseases, according to a new study.

via Washington Post Here is your weekly dose of NSA revelations, reported in the Washington Post from the classified documents cache released by Edward Snowden: the NSA has a program called MYSTIC that can monitor an ent...

A team of University of Toronto physicists led by Alex Hayat has proposed a novel and efficient way to leverage the strange quantum physics phenomenon known as entanglement. The approach would involve combining light-emi...

An asteroid will make a bright star vanish for seconds this week – from the point of view of New Yorkers. An occultation specialist explains     

The discovery of ripples in space-time from the mysterious earliest moments after the Big Bang is not only a "smoking gun" for the universe's rapid expansion but also could have important implications for physics.