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It's a feel-good conservation story but can Europe's human inhabitants really coexist peacefully with wolves, bears and lynx? (full text available to subscribers)

A multi-institutional team has resolved a long-unanswered question about how two of the world’s most common substances interact.

Researchers report the first evidence that distant earthquakes can trigger icequakes in Antarctica.

The Magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake of 2010 triggered icequakes (cryoseisms or frost-quakes); vibrations from rapid fracture in large ice fields, frozen soil, or rocks interlaced with frozen water. Seismic data sped up 10...

Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain rips at the beach.

UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering a radical way to develop a new generation of elect...

The controversial oil pipeline will boost carbon dioxide emissions by 110 million tonnes per year, far more than the US government claimed

Copenhagen is the site for a huge experiment in smart lighting that could save money, cut carbon emissions and even alert police to suspicious activity

Transformers, hallucinations and fake orgasms are just the start; check out the coolest stories in Science this week.

(Australian National University) Physicists at The Australian National University have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or expl...

(Neural Regeneration Research) Professor Bin Liu and co-workers from the Affiliated Hospital of Hebei United University, China intraperitoneally injected wortmannin into a rat model of vascular dementia. They found that ...

(American Chemical Society) A plastic sponge that sops up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide might ease our tranisition away from polluting fossil fuels to new energy sources like hydrogen. At the 248th National Meeting &...

(Neural Regeneration Research) In the central nervous system, Asiaticoside has been shown to attenuate in vitro neuronal damage caused by exposure to beta-amyloid. However, its potential neuroprotective properties in glu...

(Neural Regeneration Research) Dr. Sung Ho Jang and co-workers from College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea, using DTT, report on a male patient, 33 years old, who showed selective verbal memory impai...

(University of Montreal) Collaborative three-dimensional sketching is now possible thanks to a system known as Hyve-3D that University of Montreal researchers are presenting today at the SIGGRAPH 2014 conference in Vanco...

(Monash University) The discovery of a new mechanism of drug action could lead to the next generation of drugs to treat schizophrenia.

(University College London) University College London scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering ...

(Monash University) Experts believe a molecule in parasitic worms could help explain why worm infections can effectively treat a range of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis...