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Physics is on the front pages of newspapers around the world. This time it is because of the announcement made by a team of scientists who seem to have found indirect evidence for the existence of "primordial gravitation...

(Phys.org) --Turbulence. The word often conjures feelings of bouncing back and forth in an airplane seat. You tighten your grip on the armrests, and the intercom crackles, "Ladies and gentleman, the captain has turned on...

China is edging closer to allowing all citizens to have two children instead of one. Is it too little, too late, wonders demographer Wang Feng     

The most powerful atom laser yet made could fly to space to look for interactions between quantum mechanics and general relativity     

Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago had five times more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than we have today

There are a number of hazards in golf: sand traps, the "rough," lakes and other water hazards, and two-for-one happy hour at the nineteenth hole. You can now add "wildfires" to that list.

A new, flexible antenna could be used in wearable health monitoring devices.

More than two weeks after its strange disappearance, Malaysian officials announced they believe Flight 370 crashed into the sea.

Children who play violent video games may experience an increase in aggressive thoughts, which in turn, could boost their aggressive behavior, a controversial new study conducted in Singapore suggests.

Why do some people sail through life's difficulties, while others get mired in depression? A certain gene may explain such differences between people, a new study suggests.

Some experiments are really difficult to perform in practice. To gain a detailed understanding of the behaviour of molecular hydrogen (H2), for example, we would have to produce such high pressures as those occurring wit...

A spinning tornado of very cold liquid helium obeys the laws of quantum mechanics. Sometimes, two quantum tornadoes flex into curved lines, cross over and form an X, swap ends, and then retract--a process called reconnec...

New research sheds light on the nature of 'unidentified electron objects'--a mysterious class of objects that exists in superfluid helium at low temperature.

Computer hard drives could soon have a lot more storage capabilities - thanks to a recent discovery of a highly sensitive magnetic material that changes its magnetism with tiniest shifts in temperature.

An ancient labor contract by a guard hired to protect a vineyard in ancient Egypt has been deciphered. Scrawled in Greek on a piece of dark brown papyrus, the document dates back to the 4th century A.D., a new research p...

Researchers of the FOM Institute DIFFER[ have discovered that the wall material of a fusion reactor can shield itself from high energy plasma bursts. The wall material tungsten seems to expel a cloud of cooling hydrogen ...

Merely going unseen won't silence your footsteps or neutralise your body heat. Now researchers are working on true stealth (full text available to subscribers)     

When a person is thirsty, a drink of water can be very satisfying, but after the thirst has been quenched, drinking more can be unpleasant. New research reveals the root of these experiences in the brain.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razah announced Monday new satellite data shows Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down over the southern Indian Ocean.

The Crabster CR200 is a 1,400-pound behemoth of a 'bot soon being sent to the ocean floor--for both scientific and commercial use. Up until now, we've mostly seen it in action through still photos and animations, but her...

Imagine a field of small wires -- standing at attention like a tiny field of wheat -- gathering the Sun's rays as the first step in solar energy conversion.

Hotel guests can be gently persuaded to reduce the number of towels they use each day, psychology researchers at the University of Luxembourg have found. With fewer towels to wash, this reduces the waste of water, energy...