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(Phys.org) --In a typical man-made sonar system, pulses of sound emitted by the projector bounce off hidden objects underwater. The echoes are then detected by the receiver to infer the location and size of the hidden ob...

When Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan was hospitalized in Dallas for Ebola infection after having entered the U.S. just days earlier, it typified many health officials' worst fears that someone with Ebola could board ...

This week on the Physics Central Podcast, I'm talking with science writer Simon Singh, about his latest book, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. In it, Singh reveals that one of America's favorite cartoon famil...

Reconstructions of the muscles on the skulls of the largest animals to have walked the Earth reveal the diets of these huge dinosaurs and how they managed to coexist

Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the... --

Canada's superconducting electron linear accelerator produces first beam -- Fermilab's 500-mile neutrino experiment up and running -- A warm dark matter search using XMASS - editors' suggestion of Physical Review Letters...

Out of 20 biodiversity targets set in Nagoya, Japan, in 2010 few are on track – some are even further away from being realised than they were four years ago

A complicated technique used on LHC data for the first time has revealed two new particles, one of which has a combination of properties never seen before

Americans may be living longer than ever -- Life expectancy at birth for the U.S. population reached a record high of 78.8 years in 2012, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Great ideas sometimes come out of the blue, but we don't always have time to wait around. Here are the latest tips to get your creativity flowing (full text available to subscribers)

The little things people take for granted -- like holding a cherry without crushing it, or the soft touch of a loved one's hand -- are beyond the reach of many amputees. But a new kind of prosthetic restores sensation an...

Amputees wearing a new prosthetic device regained their sense of touch and were also cured of their phantom pain.

Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the U.S. to become sick with the virus, died Wednesday, according to a statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where he was being treated. The hospi...

Five of the busiest airports in the U.S. will begin screening travelers arriving from countries affected by Ebola for signs of infection, including fever, federal officials announced Wednesday. Passengers arriving from L...

Weather on Earth might be filled with hurricanes, tornadoes and snow storms. But what about in space? The U.K. government announced Wednesday that it has opened a solar storm center to deal with the large explosions in t...

A company in China is planning to offer a low-cost near-space tourism service that would send people roughly 40 kilometers, or nearly 25 miles, above the Earth. Space Vision, a Beijing-based startup, wants to offer a mor...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to an American neuroscientist, a German biochemist and an American chemist "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy." Image credit: Fabian Göttfe...

Two people who lost their hands have been trying a prosthesis that transmits complex tactile sensations, such as the feel of water trickling over their hand

A man left almost completely paralysed after a stroke has found his voice via a brain-computer interface, the first "locked-in" person to master the device

Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco. As the space flick Gravity plays on large monitors in the open office space of a San Francisco tech company, nearly 175 people fig...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. The winning work is explained by... --

Lost revenue from tourism and other industries help make the economic case for governments to start acting to stop ocean acidification