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(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Saturday, 186 miles (300 km) west-northwest of Tonga, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no immediate tsunami alert following the quake, accor...

It may not compare to the invention of the wheel, but scientists say they have discovered the catchiest pop song in history -- and it's a spicy revelation. "Wannabe," the debut hit from "The Spice Girls," was the most ea...

The deleterious effects of climate change have been felt around the world, and extreme weather events will only get worse without a serious dose of behavior modification, the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel...

Usually, light waves do not interact with each other. Coupling of photons with other photons is only possible with the help of special materials and very intense light. Scientists in Vienna have now created the strongest...

A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his students produced by colliding pairs of Bose Einstein condensat...

As a child, it was fascinating to put a flashlight up to our palms to see the light shine through the hand. Washington University in St. Louis engineers are using a similar idea to track movement inside the body's tissue...

Politicians promise a bonanza of growth and jobs from the world's biggest ever trade deal, but their claims are based on biased models, warn two political economists

A timely conversation with physicist Sean M. Carroll about how our one-way trip from the past to the future is entangled with entropy and the origin of the universe --

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(Vienna University of Technology) Usually, light waves do not interact with each other. Coupling of photons with other photons is only possible with the help of special materials and very intense light. Scientists in Vie...

(Rice University) How can two clumps of matter pass through each other without sharing space? Rice University physicists have documented a strange disappearing act by colliding Bose Einstein condensates that appear to ke...

(Institute of Physics) In this month's issue of Physics World, James Dacey explores the ways in which physicists are bridging the 'valley of death' to take their innovations from the lab into the commercial market.