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Keep those kiddos off the furniture. A new study suggests that 3-year-olds who climb have nearly 10 times the risk of landing in the ER with a fall-related injury than kids who stay on the ground.

When human brain cells called astrocytes are let loose in mouse brains, they rapidly overwhelm the mouse cells and make the rodents smarter

(Acoustical Society of America) Ning Xiang, Director of the Graduate Program inArchitectural Acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal by the Acoustical Society of A...

To improve shipping efficiency, Amazon is using thousands of robots to gather products in its shipping centers on Cyber Monday.

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. But hitherto it has been impossible to read optically written information from such systems electronically. Using a ...

Metamaterials, precisely designed composite materials that have properties not found in natural ones, could be used to make light-bending invisibility cloaks, flat lenses and other otherwise impossible devices.

Dark matter might be made of clouds of energy cracks instead of particles and may be detectable in GPS signals.

The ancestors of modern humans began evolving the ability to digest alcohol about 10 million years ago, new research finds.

Dogs that help humans in danger can do so much more when they have technology designed especially for paws and noses (full text available to subscribers)

A recently released biopic of Alan Turing ("The Imitation Game") tells the story of the British mathematician and cryptographer who built a machine to crack the German Enigma code during World War II. But Turing is perha...

Applying an electric field to soap films creates controllable swirling patterns, a technique that could make precise manipulation of liquids easier

Last week's Black Friday officially ushered in this year's holiday shopping season. Undoubtedly, there are a few Physics Buzz readers seeking gifts for their physics-minded friends and family.Here's one possibility: a qu...

Where do evolution's adaptations come from? Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner has some surprising answers

Watch some of the earliest motion picture taken in the Arctic by explorers in the early 20th century, narrated by Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Curator Genevieve LeMoine.

First ever enzymes made from XNA, an artificial alternative to DNA and RNA, reveal how life could have started and may work as long-lasting therapies

Finally, the robot revolution is arriving. There’s a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of the muck of the lab...

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In a study conducted by Nationwide Children's Hospital, researchers combed through 22 years of accident reports to find that foot-powered scooters have been the leading culprit behind emergency room visits for kids betwe...

A system that enables you to feel and handle floating virtual objects with your bare hands is poised to bring virtual reality into the physical world

The resolution of scanning tunnelling microscopes can be improved dramatically by attaching small molecules or atoms to their tip. The resulting images were the first to show the geometric structure of molecules and have...

Astronomers are searching for gravitational waves possibly emitted by "strange stars," superdense objects made of exotic matter.

The Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) established by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is pushing research relating to batteries of the next and next-but-one generations: A research team has now developed an electrolyt...