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Mycologists - scientists who study fungi - estimate there are up to five million species of fungi on Earth. Of these, only about 2 percent, or 100,000 species, have been formally described. So where are the other 98 perc...

A warmer-than-average fall season is likely on tap for the eastern and western United States, federal climate scientists say, because of an El Niño system forming out in the Pacific Ocean. In such an event, ocean temper...

A single dose of a commonly prescribed antidepressant drug quickly and dramatically changes how "in sync" different parts of the brain are, new research suggests.

While the season for swimming has already passed in most of the country, it's still not too late in the year for some physics fun in the pool! If you've got a sunny day, a dinner plate, and access to a calm body of water...

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are on a mission to make the breast-feeding experience better for moms.

From farming to firefighting, drones will soon fly into everyday life in the US - the Federal Aviation Administration has six flight zones paving the way

With its fiery rains, speedy magnetic flips and an atmosphere that defies the laws of physics – our home star is as weird as it gets (full text available to subscribers)

In Innsbruck, Austria, a team of physicists led by Francesca Ferlaino experimentally observed how the anisotropic properties of particles deform the Fermi surface in a quantum gas. The work published in Science provides ...

An ancient compound decorated with earth-toned mosaics may have once housed Byzantine-era monks as they pressed wine and oil for their livelihood. Archaeologists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority uncovered the ancie...

Harvard's Wyss institute is developing the exosuit by studying the biomechanics and physiology of human walking. Its is still in the research and development phase and not available commercially.

More U.S. children and adults are getting vaccinated against the flu, but public health officials say there's room for improvement in vaccination rates.

University of Utah physicists read the subatomic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of hydrogen isotopes, and used the data to control current that powered light in a cheap, plastic LED - at room temperature and without st...

The population was expected to peak at 9 billion by 2050, but high fertility rates in Africa may mean it surges as high as 12.3 billion by 2100

An Israeli compound dated to the Byzantine era may have once housed monks who pressed wine and oil for a living.

While computers scientists find new ways to supercharge computers, a team of plant scientists have demonstrated that they can supercharge a plant. Hoping to speed up plant photosynthesis, researchers from the US and UK h...

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration has today presented its latest results. These are based on the analysis of 41 billion particles detected with the space-based AMS detector aboard the International Spac...

Murder is an act of aggression that "comes naturally" to chimpanzees, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature. Researchers found that killing has become an evolved tactic for the species, and ...

Thousands of tourists, mostly Americans, were still stranded in Baja California Wednesday as flights from the region's heavily damaged airport remained grounded and electrical and water services were down.

Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, along with ground-based observations, have helped astronomers detect a monster black hole inside one of the tiniest galaxies ever known. Scientists have described it as the discov...

The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) jointly announce a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be Open Access. A...

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