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Particle physicists have a hard time identifying all the elementary particles created in their particle accelerators. But now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have designed a material that makes it much e...

Like dancers swirling on the dance floor with bystanders looking on, protons and neutrons that have briefly paired up in the nucleus have higher-average momentum, leaving less for non-paired nucleons. Using data from nuc...

Remember Space Invaders? The arcade game and later Atari hit pitted a lone pixellated laser cannon against a swarm of equally pixellated descending aliens. ...

The iFit Active is a fitness tracker that aims to measure your exercise, diet and sleep. Here's a review of the device and how it performed in several areas.

Some comatose patients may be aware despite being uncommunicative, and scientists have found a new way that may help identify these patients.

In a slow-motion apocalypse, half of the animals on the planet are shuffling towards oblivion. But we still have time to swing into action to save them (full text available to subscribers)

Tornadoes are touching down in clusters more often than 50 years ago.

Astrophysical jets are counted among our Universe's most spectacular phenomena: From the centers of black holes, quasars, or protostars, these rays of matter sometimes protrude several light years into space. Now, for th...

Energy loss in optical systems, such as lasers, is a chief hindrance to their performance and efficiency, and it occurs on an ongoing, frustrating basis.

Don't expect the polar vortex to pummel the eastern United States this winter.

Ancient giant predecessors of modern-day kangaroos most likely could not hop, but walked, according to a study based on the extinct animals' body posture, which was so rigid that they could move only one hindlimb at a ti...

Airport screenings. Enhanced training for nurses. Immediate response times for new patients. Updated testing standards. The U.S. government detailed late Wednesday a series of control measures aimed at stopping the Ebola...

Particle physicists have a hard time identifying all the elementary particles created in their particle accelerators. But now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have designed a material that makes it much e...

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report today that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin mater...

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A mosaic on the floor of a vast Greek tomb shows the reluctant bride Persephone being carted off to the underworld with Hades, archaeologists announced today (Oct. 16).

Greenpeace will never defeat climate-change denial if it employs the same unscientific fear and smear tactics in its opposition to GM crops, says Fred Pearce

A study of circulating ranaviruses reveals they have devastated amphibian populations in a Spanish national park

Software that can identify plumes emanating from comet and moon surfaces is the next step toward landers that can explore planets autonomously

White-footed sportive lemurs are lazy, nocturnal and avoid family life, but by visiting the same toilet, manage to keep in touch with each other

Grab a favorite toy and turn its shadow into art that illustrates an ancient solar system secret --

A comet on express delivery from the Oort cloud of rock and ice that surrounds our Solar System makes a close approach of Mars this weekend. Martian satellites are already hunkering down against the potential onslaught o...