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It's neuroscience's final frontier. Tiny bubbles will open the blood-brain barrier to sneak drugs into tumours – and we might treat Alzheimer's the same way

Not all sauropod dinosaurs were long-necked giants. Now, researchers have found miniature fossils that belonged to adult sauropods, revealing the processes that led to dwarf dinosaurs.

This region, and for that matter much of our world's oceans, are often described as poorly explored. But what do we mean by poorly explored and why do we know so little?

Scientists have found spiders that hunt fish on every continent except Antarctica.

The first global survey of fish-eating spiders shows that they prey on fish on every continent except Antarctica, usually pouncing from the waterside

We're starting a new tradition here the Physics Central Podcast: once a month we'll be bringing you a roundup of our favorite physics news stories from the past 30 days.June has been a rocky month for science news: an a...

Good luck getting a cup of coffee, much less an espresso, aboard the International Space Station -- at least that's how it's been for ISS astronauts to date. But that could all change with Lavazza's plan to launch "ISSpr...

Parents of children with autism sometimes decide not to have more children after their first child is diagnosed or shows signs of the disorder, a new study suggests.

In women, depression and heart disease may be linked, a new study finds.

We have read the genomes of enigmatic microbes that scrape a living far underground and in rivers under the ocean bed - our best view yet of this alien world

When it comes to electricity supply, we're caught in a vicious triangle. A bold scheme that pays big business to switch off could be part of the solution (full text available to subscribers)

A Los Alamos technique called muon tomography can safely peer inside the cores of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and create high-resolution images of the damaged nuclear material inside without ever breaching the cores t...

It's getting harder to find people to work on farms in the US - robo-farmers are shifting plants and could soon be picking strawberries in their place

Simultaneously recording J. S. Bach's Contrapunctus II to wax cylinder, 96 kHz PCM, 1/4-inch analog, 78 RPM direct-to-disk and 16 bit Mp3 - technologies spanning 125 years of audio production - for Red Hot + Bach ://smar...

Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden and a new form of radio, hackers have recreated the bugs that US spies plant to steal personal information

The British Royal Air Force (RAF) unveiled the first upgraded Chinook helicopter of a planned new fleet this week. The helicopters are part of the country's $1.7 billion U.S. (1 billion pounds) campaign to strengthen the...

Natural fracking may be to blame for weird 'slow' earthquakes that last for hours to days, a new study suggests.

CAVE MEN did not live in caves. But some died in them and their remains, thus protected from scavengers and the elements, lasted long enough for palaeontologists to discover and examine them. Sometime between 600,000 and...

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins explores a 1960s project to teach a dolphin English, but its true significance has been buried in sexual innuendo

The fundamental gravitational constant that Newton described more than 300 years ago has been measured using fountains of ultracold atoms.

Seemingly ordinary, water has quite puzzling behavior. Why, for example, does ice float when most liquids crystallize into dense solids that sink?

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made the first structural observations of liquid water at temperatures down to minus 51 degrees Fahrenheit, within an elusive "no-man's l...