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The brain's special abilities entice engineers like Silvia Ferrari to model it when creating new control and navigation systems for aircraft, robots and more.

A remote village in Mali speaks a language that hides as much as it communicates. Did this unique tongue evolve to shield escaped slaves? (full text available to subscribers)

A sensor-studded collar monitors your dog's vital signs and activity patterns, letting you know when it is feeling poorly

University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton. The team will publish its work online June 1 in Nature Physics.

Astrophysicists have established that cosmic turbulence could have amplified magnetic fields to the strengths observed in interstellar space.

Imagine that, in the face of substantial technical odds, you developed a vaccine for malaria that, in early trials, was 100 percent effective. But then, due to political wrangling over the budget, you couldn't get the fu...

By 2100 southern England is predicted to be hit by five times as many sudden summer deluges as now, probably causing more flash floods

The full moon affecting fish, a caveman campsite and a fish lizard graveyard are among our most interesting stories in Science this week.

Even in a world of digital devices, braille continues to be a vital part of life for blind people. For nearly 200 years, this versatile writing system has allowed them to learn, work and live in a more independent way.

(University of Adelaide) University of Adelaide physics researchers have produced the world's most sensitive thermometer -- three times more precise than the best thermometers in existence.

(University of Manchester) Combining black and white graphene can change the electronic properties of the one-atom thick materials, University of Manchester researchers have found.

(Institute of Physics) As Brazil gets set to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup this month amid concerns about the amount of public money being used to stage the world's largest sporting event, Physics World's editorial team r...

(University of Pittsburgh) University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton. The team will publish its work online June 1 in N...

(University of Chicago) Astrophysicists have established that cosmic turbulence could have amplified magnetic fields to the strengths observed in interstellar space.

(University of Oxford) Laser beams 60,000 billion times more powerful than a laser pointer have been used to recreate scaled supernova explosions in the laboratory as a way of investigating one of the most energetic even...

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Using a flash of light, scientists have inactivated and then reactivated a memory in genetically engineered rats. The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, is th...

SpaceX unveiled the next-generation Dragon V2 spacecraft to much applause but the company is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program whose main goal is to bring manned launches back to America by 2017.