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British-American scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for discovering an "inner GPS" within the brain. This mechanism, discovered in...

A new study, conducted on more than 250,000 subjects, has almost doubled the number of known gene regions -- including nearly 700 genes -- that influence height. The study by the international Genetic Investigation of An...

What happens after you scoop the ultimate accolade in science? Six past winners recall the impact of receiving a Nobel prize

The XMASS collaboration, led by Yoichiro Suzuki at the Kavli IPMU, has reported latest results on warm dark matter search. Their results rule out the possibility that super-weakly interacting massive bosonic particles (B...

New theoretical physics models could help us better grasp the atmospheric chemistry of ozone depletion. Indeed, understanding photoabsorption of nitrous oxide (N2O) - a process which involves the transfer of the energy o...

Researchers have taken an important step towards developing a new X-ray lens made of diamond. A team of scientists from the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden and Technische Universität Chemnitz as well as from DESY h...

Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They were first discovered in the 1950s as a product of radioactive decay, but they are also produced in nuclear fusion reactions. As a result, copious ...

(Phys.org) --It's the most powerful accelerator-based neutrino experiment ever built in the United States, and the longest-distance one in the world. It's called NOvA, and after nearly five years of construction, scienti...

The children born to women who were exposed to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy may be at an increased risk of lung problems, according to a new study.

To stop identity thieves and counterfeiters, a group of researchers is looking for inspiration from an unlikely source: butterflies.

Study finds the upper levels of the planet's oceans have been warming much faster than previously realized.

Imagine being able to tune the properties of a solid material just by flashing pulses of light on it, for example turning an insulator into a superconductor. That is just one potential payoff down-the-road from the physi...

Many trees put on a show in fall, with their leaves turning hues of orange, yellow, red, purple and brown. But these changing colors can also serve as a marker to help identify trees.

Anyone who has blown a bubble and seen how quickly it pops has first-hand experience on the major challenge in creating stable foams.

New theoretical physics models could help us better grasp the atmospheric chemistry of ozone depletion. Indeed, understanding photoabsorption of nitrous oxide (N2O) -- a process which involves the transfer of the energy ...

Hirst's shark decayed in its tank. Van Gogh's sunflowers turned brown. A vandal scrawled on a Rothko. Here's how masterpieces are fixed - if artists allow it (full text available to subscribers)

Construction is complete for NOvA, the longest-distance neutrino experiment in the world. With construction completed, the NOvA neutrino experiment has begun its probe into the mysteries of ghostly particles that may hol...

While they're not quite sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, the Navy's new fleet of unmanned war boats could still cause quite a scare.

A deep-drilling project into one of the world's most dangerous earthquake faults kicked off Saturday (Oct. 4) on New Zealand's South Island.

A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, will take place Wednesday and will be visible across the United States. Viewers will have to wake up early, as totality begins at 6:25 a.m. EDT and the lunar eclipse could be even mo...

The Ebola virus appears to be spreading beyond the original outbreak. A Spanish nurse has reportedly become the first person to have contracted the virus outside West Africa. The nurse tested positive for Ebola in initia...

With construction completed, the NOvA experiment has begun its probe into the mysteries of ghostly particles that may hold the key to understanding the universe.