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The U.S. Navy's Nike laser is so fast it recently earned a Guinness World Records title. The laser is being used to study nuclear fusion as an environmentally friendly energy alternative.

Stan Bentvelsen new director of Nikhef -- Higgs boson could also explain the earliest expansion of the universe -- The smallest possible scale in the universe -- Electrons in magnetic field reveal surprises -- Finding a ...

How the crowd control technology -- like tear gas, rubber bullets and sound cannons -- being used in Ferguson, Missouri, works.

It may sound unlikely, but a knife in your skull might not kill you.

Drexel University has conducted a "snake race" and have determined that northern pine snakes move slower on roads than they do on sand and soil, leading to high road kill numbers.

Laser physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive and capable of detecting forces as small as the weight of an individual virus.

New insights explain how respiration does not result in asphyxiation. Image credit: Antonio Guillem via shutterstock Rights information: ://shutr.bz/1kivwqc Why don't we suffocate whenever we try to take a breath? An int...

An experimental nano silver medication that Nigeria is planning to give to Ebola patients is unlikely to work.

What makes for an ideal piece of gossip? People are mostly likely to spread a story if it contains a 'juicy' bit of information and involves someone they know well.

Dollar Bills iBid, State of Illinois You know that unique smell of money. You're not imagining it, either; it's real, produced from a combination of the paper and ink it's printed with, and it's even detectable by sniffe...

In a decades-long quest, researchers have hunted for evidence of monopoles - magnets with just a north or south pole - from the moon to the bowels of the Earth

Pro gaming is such big business that top teams approach competition like athletes do, even setting up training camps where gamers work out and bond

As West Africa grapples with the deadliest outbreak of Ebola ever, scientists have turned to an unlikely source in the desperate hunt for better treatments: tobacco. Laboratories in the U.S. and Europe are using tobacco ...

Newly discovered patterns in old outbreaks of childhood diseases, such as diphtheria and scarlet fever, could help modern disease fighters.

These beetles have scales that make them whiter than paper. No human technology can match their brilliance using such thin material

Detroit Flood. On August 11, more than 4 inches of rain fell on Detroit in less than a day. Drivers abandoned their cars as many metro area highways turned into lakes. The Detroit News Six weeks worth of rain fell on gre...

Currently, researchers study the human brain by inference. Because they can't closely observe a living brain in the lab as its owner goes about his day--they do the next best thing, tracking blood flow and electrical act...

To activate or loosen their grip on a surface, geckos extend and angle, or retract, tiny toe hairs that create contact points. Clara Moskowitz reports.     --

Iran's parliament has recently voted to ban permanent forms of birth control, such as vasectomy, in a bid to improve country's declining birth rate. Experts find the move a bad policy, and borderline unethical.

(Phys.org) --Laser physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive and capable of detecting forces as small as the weight of an individual virus.

Many physical systems, from superfluids to pi mesons, are understood to be manifestations of spontaneous symmetry breaking, whereby the symmetries of a system are not realized by its lowest energy state. A consequence of...

We use magnets every day to run computers and stick things to refrigerators, but did you know that one animal has magnetic teeth? And magnetism is relativistic?