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Half a million ultracold atoms were linked together in the first-ever “macroscopic spin singlet” state   --

The open-backed, pantless hospital gowns could be dehumanizing for patients and contribute to a traumatizing hospital experience, some doctors argue.

There should not be any flight bans to Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee said Monday. A handful of carriers have canceled flights to and from West Africa in...

The autumnal equinox, which marks the first day of fall for the Northern Hemisphere, takes place Monday at 10:29 p.m. EDT. Instead of saying goodbye to summer, one should say hello to the fall. While the autumnal equinox...

Hundreds of environmentalists stopped traffic in lower Manhattan Monday as they gathered at Wall Street to protest what they described as corporate America's hand in climate change. Police officers looked on as marchers ...

Miles of slick mud poured down the parched throat of California's Mount Shasta on Sunday (Sept. 21) in one of volcano's largest mudslides in two decades, the Forest Service said.

Simulated Martian soil supports plant life, but questions about extraterrestrial plant growth remain. Originally published: Sep 11 2014 - 2:45pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Patricia Waldron, Contributor(Inside Scienc...

At a 1990 conference on cosmology, I asked attendees, who included folks like Stephen Hawking, Michael Turner, James Peebles, Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, to nominate the smartest living physicist. --

Carrying 100 pounds of stuff on your back is hard for a human. But for a robot? Not so much.

Storytelling, dancing and singing reign supreme when the African Kalahari Bushmen light their nighttime fires and depart from daytime conversations about economics and gossip.

University of Utah engineers discovered a way to create a special material - a metal layer on top of a silicon semiconductor - that could lead to cost-effective, superfast computers that perform lightning-fast calculatio...

The north-west US has been getting hotter over the past 100 years, bringing pest infestations and wildfire. But it seems human-caused climate change isn't to blame

Once they were free-living bacteria, then they hijacked complex cells, now it turns out they have a hand in everything from memory and ageing to obesity (full text available to subscribers)

Mike Senese, executive editor of Make Magazine, gave a presentation at the World Maker Faire this weekend (Sept. 20-21) on ways drones can be used for good.

Space dust accounts for at least some of the possible signal of cosmic inflation the BICEP2 experiment announced in March. How much remains to be seen. Space is full of dust, according to a new analysis from the European...

The ancient Greek philosopher deserves our homage, and Armand Marie Leroi delivers it in his edifying and excellent book, The Lagoon

Archaeologists have revealed the feet and platform sandals on a pair of wavy-haired female statues standing guard at the entrance of a huge ancient tomb in Greece.

The plant-eating dinosaur, which sported some of the largest nasal passages of any dinosaur, may have been killed by a giant crocodile 75 million years ago. The croc attack would have led to the quick death and burial of...

Tonight, Google will announce the winners of its fourth annual Google Science Fair, which Scientific American co-sponsors. Watch the awards ceremony here live. --

An MIT developed sensor called GelSight was integrated into a robotic arm. This sensor has successfully been used to grab a USB cable and plugged it into a USB port.

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