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Scientists have discovered a new species of horned dinosaur with a unique wing-like headgear, which roamed North America about 77 million years ago.

Cold rubidium atoms have provided a fresh approach to measuring Newtons big G --

A rare gold coin from the Roman era, embossed with the image of Emperor Nero, has been unearthed in England.

While the definition of death may seem obvious, medical technologies have made the determination of death an increasingly gray area.

The geographical profiling that catches serial killers can track bats to their roosts or sharks to their lairs - and could close in on deadly diseases too (full text available to subscribers)

Explosives were detonated at the top of a mountain in northern Chile today (June 19) to begin clearing the way for the biggest optical telescope in the world.

In 2013, astronomers became aware the center of galaxy NGC 5548 had seemingly gone dark. Astrophysicist Jelle Kaastra and team now think they know why: a stream of obscuring gas blown by the action of the central superma...

Hominin skulls discovered in a Spanish cave showed a mix of traits from Neanderthals and more primitive human lineages, suggesting Neanderthal features evolved separately at different times.

The world's first commercial quantum computer, made by the Canadian company D-Wave Systems Inc., performed no better than a classical computer in a recent analysis.

The NEMO (Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory) experiment, whose goal was to elucidate the nature of neutrinos and measure their mass, yielded very positive results. The product of an extensive international collaborati...

Ancient skulls found in Spain reveal how the earliest Neanderthals differed from their ancestors, suggesting their jaws changed shape to grip objects

Today more inconclusive tests of D-Wave's quantum computers came to light – why is it so hard to tell if its machines are the real deal?

For the first time, the BICEP2 team – hailed for their gravitational wave discovery earlier this year – have dialled back on the certainty of the result

Your smartphone's display glass could soon be more than just a pretty face, thanks to new technology developed by researchers from Montreal and the New York-based company Corning Incorporated. The team has created the fi...

Reported cases of West Nile virus dropped in the United States in 2013 compared to the previous year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"It's that time again." These were the words on more than one pair of lips at Singularity University's 2014 Graduate Studies Program (GSP) opening ceremony. The 10-week summer program was Singularity ...

A bizarre June snowstorm hit Glacier National Park in Montana and parts of Utah and Idaho this week, leaving many residents and visitors in the northern Rockies wondering what season it is.

Free will may emerge from random background noise in the brain, new research suggests.

Health officials are investigating a sharp rise in deaths in Rhode Island due to overdoses from the drug fentanyl, a prescription painkiller that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.

A new proposed scheme, by Wen-Xing Yang, from the Department of Physics, Southeast University, China, and colleagues, analyzed in detail the optical steady behavior in GaAs quantum well structure driven by an ellipticall...

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Cosmic inflation is sound whether or not we have found primordial gravitational waves, says the theory's co-founder Andrei Linde