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(Phys.org) --A team of researchers in the U.S. has added the ability to detect atomic lattice vibrations to a scanning tunneling electron microscope. In their paper describing their efforts, published in the journal Natu...

Nobel's prize was eternal fame THE Nobel prizes were originally intended to reward people or organisations who, as the founder's will put it, "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind". Often, in the field of physi...

NASA's Transport Rotorcraft Airframe Crash Testbed (TRACT 2) dropped a 45-foot-long fmr. Marine helicopter 30 feet to test. The test was done to improve helicopter systems and safety.

Technologies to help paralyzed people move again have come a long way since "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve died 10 years ago. While a paralysis "cure" remains far from reality, the strides made in the past decade wou...

El Niño still hasn't emerged, but forecasters give it a two-thirds chance of forming by the end of the year.

You may have caught a glance of yesterday's Nobel Prize in chemistry -- the science community was awash with the news. Three scientists won the award for pushing the limits of microscope resolution far beyond what was ...

One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes made it the perfect subject for a new study aimed at getting robots out of the lab and into the real world.

Goggles that warp your vision might be the key to understanding the redness of red, the softness of velvet and the nature of consciousness itself (full text available to subscribers)

The science of biorobotics is informing the design of new robots.

With no limbs to speak of, a snake-shaped robot has been built to skitter sideways in environments that would stump most automatons

Cancerous cells can lie dormant in the lungs for decades before turning deadly. The delay raises hope of destroying the cancer before it can strike

Ancient tableware, lead anchors and a giant bronze spear have been recovered during an expedition to the 2,000-year-old Antikythera shipwreck in Greece. Marine archaeologists also found that the sunken ship could be bigg...

A pastor revealed the final words of Thomas Duncan, who was diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. in September and died Wednesday at a hospital in Dallas, during a memorial service for the Liberian national. When a nurse aske...

After the first cases of Ebola in Europe and the US, how well prepared are nations beyond western Africa to cope with the virus, asks Debora MacKenzie

A study of skydivers suggests that brain scans can identify those who feel fear but overcome it, and those whose brains don't assess danger properly

Scientists at the University of Southampton have identified key characteristics that enhance a nanoparticle's ability to penetrate skin, in a milestone study which could have major implications for the delivery of drugs....

Carbon capture is a process by which waste carbon dioxide (CO2) released by factories and power plants is collected and stored away, in order to reduce global carbon emissions. There are two major ways of carbon capture ...

When a basically sturdy material becomes soft and spongy, one usually suspects that it has been damaged in some way. But this is not always the case, especially when it comes to complex fluids and biological cells. By lo...

Mazhar Ali, a fifth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Bob Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, has spent his academic career discovering new superconductors, materials ...

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The discovery of a new particle will "transform our understanding" of the fundamental force of nature that binds the nuclei of atoms, researchers argue.

A tomb with bodies surrounded by gold and silver riches is just one of the discoveries at an excavation of the El Argar civilisation's royal city in Spain