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A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical gear for potential use in future missions to the "Red Planet." They do it within their Mars environmental simulation chamber, which is sp...

(Phys.org) --Einstein's scepticism about quantum mechanics may lead to an ultra-secure internet, suggests a new paper by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Peking University.

A fish with a cylindrical eye that points upwards was discovered in the Tasman Sea located between Australia and New Zealand. D. A. Flynn (CSIRO)

The world has moved on since that 1986 catastrophe, but at Chernobyl, things haven't changed very much.

A new video has captured the lightning-fast movement of blowfly wings, which could help scientists develop tiny flying robots.

Peering inside a living blowfly during flight reveals the intricate muscle movement involved     

Air pollution exposure contributes to one in eight deaths around the globe, according to estimates released Tuesday (March 25) by the WHO. More than doubling previous guesses, the new report says air pollution killed 7 m...

From Iron Man to The Flash and astrophysicists to particle physicists, superheroes and physicists help shape each other's worlds. Iron Man 2, the second installment in the Iron Man movie franchise, finds the hero Tony St...

Draining the water from a bathtub causes a spinning tornado to appear. The downward flow of water into the drain causes the water to rotate, and as the rotation speeds up, a vortex forms that obeys the laws of classical ...

Sneezing -- or as it's known in the medical community, sternutation -- occurs when the respiratory epithelium that lines the nose is irritated.

Like the Higgs boson, the theory of an inflating early universe has many daddies - partly because it draws on disparate ideas in physics and cosmology     

Gravitational waves could help us sift through many visions for the rapid expansion of the early universe – or offer even wilder views of cosmic birth     

Texting is becoming a medium for increasingly serious communications. But when breaking bad news, experts say, text messages are far too cold and inhumane. Face-to-face is best when the news is bad.

In future, sensors may be able to save lives by forewarning of landslides like the one that happened in Oso, Washington     

Whether for privacy or profit, much of the internet is hidden away - we reveal the places that Google won't take you (full text available to subscribers)     

Brain cells grown from the skin cells of people with bipolar disorder are revealing details about how it arises     

Google Glass is partnering with Luxottica Group, the Italian eyewear giant whose best-known brands include Ray-Ban, Oakley and Oliver Peoples, company officials announced yesterday (March 24).

This may be one of the worst mudslides in Washington state history, excluding, of course, the catastrophic 1980 Mount St. Helens volcano eruption. Rescue workers sifted through mucky rubble on Tuesday with dwindling hope...

NASA has revealed its spacesuit of the future, the Z-2, and the space agency wants the public's help in developing the first prototype. The Z-2 spacesuit features three choices that look like something a child would drea...

The launch of the International Space Station Expedition 39 crew members will take place on March 25 at 5:17 p.m. EDT. The NASA ISS live stream will begin at 4:15 p.m. and the flight to the space station will take six ho...

The solution to nuclear waste disposal could lie with a little-known element tucked away in a corner of the periodic table. Scientists have found that californium, discovered in the early 1950s, shows potential for stori...

This sprinkling of cosmic glitter makes up the galaxy known as ESO 149-3, located some 20 million light-years away from us, as seen in this stunning space wallpaper.