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Giant spinning vortexes in the ocean up to 500 kilometres across are affecting our planet's climate on a massive scale

What is believed to be the smallest force ever measured has been detected by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. Using a combination o...

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have constructed liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by an external magnetic field. The research paves the way for n...

A teen girl involved in a car accident in Michigan didn't even have time to blink before the airbag deployed, and the bag left an imprint of its canvas on her eyes, according to a new report of the case.

Take a break from the heat this summer to step into some cool galleries exhibiting scienceart. If the exhibits keep pouring in at this rate, I’ll have to split up this post by region. --

A new study finds there were more than twice as many big earthquakes in the first quarter of 2014 as compared with the average since 1979, but researchers attribute the increase to random chance.

Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned aircraft. Spy From The Past Paleofuture recently unearthed a police drone...

A world record that has stood for more than a decade has been broken by a team led by University of Cambridge engineers, harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that...

Do you know what to do if a storm hits this hurricane season?

NASA has released an updated version of the winning prototype for the spacesuit of the future. In March, NASA asked the public to vote for which Z-2 spacesuit prototype design will be built, and an overwhelming 63 percen...

An award-winning image questions our expectations of heroism by capturing a Bangladeshi shanty town devastated by fire, whose dead go unreported

Resistance to artemisinin, in some places the only anti-malarial drug that still works, may have finally spread from south-east Asia to reach Africa

Start-ups could use the flood of small, cheap satellites heading into orbit for everything from commercial data gathering to mining the waste in landfills

A broccoli concoction showed promise in a recent study in fighting one harmful effect of air pollution, but that doesn't mean that broccoli can "detox" the body.

All the latest on newscientist.com: breadfruit – food of the future, fog catchers, ethical land-grabs, vampire mite, primordial crystal cocoons and more

The "smorph" surface can change its aerodynamic properties on the go to best suit the wind speeds it encounters, which could reduce drag on cars and planes

More than 50 years after being bitten by a poisonous snake, a woman developed a large mass in her lower leg, according to a new report of her case.

Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold. On the first night the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope points its 8.4-mete...

Last month, we took a look at a spectacular crash that came about during Guerlain Chicherit's attempt to set the world's longest car jump record. A new video detailing some of the back story, preparations, and shocking i...

A NASA telescope should be able to sniff the atmospheres of Earth-sized worlds for industrial gases like CFCs – a sign of civilisation

(Phys.org) --In quantum physics, momentum and position are an example of conjugate variables. This means they are connected by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says that both quantities cannot be simultaneously ...

Liberals are just as accepting of authority as conservatives, when that authority shares their political views, new research finds. But the left and the right do differ on how much they value consensus versus uniqueness ...