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Graphene's promise as a material for new kinds of electronic devices, among other uses, has led researchers around the world to study the material in search of new applications. But one of the biggest limitations to wide...

Dumping spoil from Australian port expansion projects into the Coral Sea will do serious damage to the Great Barrier Reef, says ecologist Jon Brodie

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that DNA packs more easily into the tight confines of a virus when given a chance to relax, they report in a pair of papers to be published in in the earl...

We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans - and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios

(Phys.org) --Cryptography - the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties, referred to as adversaries - has a long and varied history. In ancient Greece, for example, the ...

What are the grand challenges? Depends on the galaxy. In unspecified galaxies far, far away and long ago, energy and cheap space travel were no issue. Evil Sith lords suffering from acute megalomania, on the other hand, ...

When we boil a kettle, we observe what scientists call a phase transition: the water changes from being a liquid to a gas as water becomes less dense. One litre of water boils to give about 1,000 litres of steam at atmos...

Mike Judge Michael Caulfield/Getty Images When Mike Judge, creator of Office Space and Beavis and Butt-head, set out to write his HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley, about Bay Area coders, he wanted to conceive a simple, ...

“Constructor theory” unites in one framework how information is processed in the classical and quantum realms --

Whether you're a human or a horse, it takes a lot of brainpower to support a complex social group - and that puts a limit on how many friends we can have (full text available to subscribers)

Not getting outside much, gaining too much weight and having to be in front of a computer hour upon hour are some of the pitfalls of having a desk job.

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) The innate immune system recognizes infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria. A group of lymphocytes known as 'innate lymphoid cells' or ILCs plays a central role in the defe...

(University of California - San Diego) DNA packs more easily into the tight confines of a virus when given a chance to relax.

(Academy of Finland) An international research team led by Academy Professor Kari Rissanen of the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and Professor Rainer Herges of the University of Kiel (Germany) has managed to make a ...

(Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore ) A team in Singapore has recently showed that uric acid is a major intracellular antioxidant, possibly even more important than the antioxidants we try to eat. They also disco...

Among the other hardships refugees face, host countries are now struggling to meet the cost of their cancer care, leaving them to choose between illness or debt