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For the first time, scientists have a clearer understanding of how to control the appearance of a superconducting phase in a material, adding crucial fundamental knowledge and perhaps setting the stage for advances in th...

Terahertz imaging, which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints, has a number of other promising applications -- from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars. Like sonar or radar, terahertz ima...

When it comes to concussions, men may take longer to recover, and show more brain damage, than women do, a new study suggests.

People who use ecstasy as a recreational drug often claim that it makes them feel more connected to others. And recent research confirms that this may indeed be the case.

The U.S. National Climate Assessment shows that summers are getting hotter, heat waves are lasting longer, and weather is getting more extreme.

World War I, which lasted from July 1914 to November 1918, introduced many scientific and technological advances, leading some observers to refer to it as "the first modern war."

The first picture of a neutrino that traveled from Illinois to Minnesota shows the NOvA experiment’s advantage in studying neutrino properties. Neutrinos are notoriously hard to see. But detecting these tiny particles ...

Does modifying the human genome mean the result is not human?

Are human genomes sacred, or is some manipulation allowed, or even necessary?

Experiments keep failing to find direct evidence for the dark stuff. Physicist Mordehai Milgrom says it's time to accept modified Newtonian dynamics instead (full text available to subscribers)

Titan Arm Photo by Marius Bugge Surviving a stroke or debilitating injury is often the start of a very long ordeal. Physical therapy can be slow and strenuous with no guarantee of recovery. Robotic exoskeletons can somet...

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to meditate.

From lost cities to islands that don't exist, geographical oddities reveal what makes a sense of place, says social geographer Alastair Bonnett in Off the Map

Every minute of every day, over a dozen dark matter detectors across the globe lie patiently in wait -- their bellies filled with ultra-pure liquid that is hungry for a dark matter particle.Dark matter particles should, ...

The White House will broadcast an event online today to highlight the findings of the newly released National Climate Assessment, which details the regional effects of climate change and examines the impact of global war...

The USGS uses Twitter to pinpoint an earthquake's source in less than a minute. The fast response helps fill the data gap in regions with a sparse seismic network.

The Environmental Protection Agency can now regulate air pollution that drifts across state lines – the new rules should pay for themselves in lives saved

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The wavy lines trace out the polarisation of light emitted from dust in the Milky Way - next up is a similar map of the relic radiation from the big bang

The galactic smash-up hints that many more similar objects are waiting to be found, which may help us tease out details of dark matter interactions

By examining the shape of the DNA bundled up inside cancerous cells, researchers may have hit upon a new way to diagnose leukaemia

The eye is an exquisitely sensitive system with many aspects that remain somewhat of a mystery--both in the laboratory and in the clinic. A U.S.-based team of mathematicians and optometrists is working to change this by ...