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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... --

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

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...

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.

The increased risk of premature death associated with a higher body mass index is similar for African Americans and whites, researchers have concluded. "While recent large studies have examined the relationship between B...

Nine traits that are not dependent on P values to predict single nucleotide polymorphisms reproducibility in genome-wide association studies and reduce false positives have been identified by researchers. Te empirical mo...

Mice fed a high-fat diet gained 18 percent less weight when they drank clarified, no-pulp grapefruit juice compared with a control group of mice that drank water, a new study demonstrated. Juice-drinking mice also showed...

Patients connected to a new prosthetic system said they 'felt' their hands for the first time since they lost them in accidents. In the ensuing months, they began feeling sensations that were familiar and were able to co...

A drug being evaluated to treat an entirely different disorder helped slow the progression of Parkinson's disease in mice, a team of researchers has reported. Their study found that the drug, AT2101, which has also been ...

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.

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...

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...

A health workers strike in Sierra Leone that resulted in the bodies of Ebola victims being left out in the streets and in homes has been resolved, the country's deputy health minister said Wednesday. The dispute occurred...

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...

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...