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The concept of "digital metamaterials" - a simple way of designing metamaterials with bizarre optical properties that could hasten the development of devices such as invisibility cloaks and superlenses - is reported in a...

A new project aims to send a special message from Earth -- a type of global "selfie" -- into space, by uploading it to a spacecraft traveling through the cosmos on its way to Pluto.

Australian officials asked the International Whaling Commission Monday to maintain a temporary ban on whaling imposed on Japan in the first global summit on whaling since March.

The quest to create artificial "squid skin"--camouflaging metamaterials that can "see" colors and automatically blend into the background--is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough color-display technology ...

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MIT's new robotic cheetah isn't as speedy as its wild counterpart, but it is stealthy and surprisingly agile.

A milky alcoholic concoction was made and drunk at one of the largest cities in prehistory, Teotihuacan in Mexico. This liquor may have helped provide the people with essential nutrients during frequent shortfalls in sta...

Heat drives classical phase transitions--think solid, liquid, and gas--but much stranger things can happen when the temperature drops. If phase transitions occur at the coldest temperatures imaginable, where quantum mech...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique for controlling the surface tension of liquid metals by applying very low voltages, opening the door to a new generation of reconfigurable elect...

Putting the human FOXP2 gene – thought to play a role in the development of language – into mice makes them quicker at learning tasks automatically

Hurricane Odile hit the Mexican resort city of Cabo San Lucas Sunday night, tying the record for the strongest hurricane ever recorded on the Baja Peninsula.

Archaeologists have peered into a third doorway inside of an ancient tomb in Greek Macedonia that is believed to date back to the era of Alexander the Great.

When a philosopher introduced the Socratic method to the inmates of a high-security psychiatric hospital, he found connections with the rest of us (full text available to subscribers)

(Phys.org) --The standard model (SM) of particle physics has four types of force carrier particles: photons, W and Z bosons, and gluons. But recently there has been renewed interest in the question of whether there might...

The category-3 hurricane crashes into Mexico's Baja Peninsula in this time-lapse video from the NOAA GOES-15 weather satellite.

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New research makes a direct link between Pennsylvania's tainted drinking water and leaky fracking wells in the Marcellus Shale.

A new project pairs science fiction authors with scientists to envision worlds that are both inspiring and achievable. A few years ago, structural engineering professor Keith Hjelmstad received an unusual phone call. On ...

Parts of the Baja California peninsula will continue to experience hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall through Monday as Hurricane Odile crawls northward at 17 mph, meteorologists report. The Category 3 hurricane wi...

The Rosetta spacecraft made a successful rendezvous with a comet in August but the historic mission is far from over. The European Space Agency has selected "Site J" as the landing site for the Philae lander. Philae will...

The powerful Hurricane Odile made landfall on the southern end of Mexico's Baja California peninsula near Cabo San Lucas Sunday night. Earlier video showed trees swaying in the storm's powerful winds. (Sept. 15)

Every year, more than 34,000 U.S. children go to the emergency room for accidentally ingesting prescription drugs such as opioid painkillers and anti-anxiety pills, and about 9,500 of these kids get hospitalized, a new s...