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The most diamond-rich rock ever found was discovered in Russia's Udachnaya diamond mine.

A team of archaeologists uncovered the layout of a medieval city in southern England using high-tech survey equipment.

Dogs and ducks are duds on the dance floor. So how come cockatoos and sea lions can move to a beat, and what does that tell us about our own musicality? (full text available to subscribers)

Researchers in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic field is generated by the interaction of the electrons' spin with their orbital movement. This property co...

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We can now grow plants in microgravity - and crops grown in asteroid soil could sustain vast human populations off-planet

Cooperation is a hard behavior to explain. Often it involves making at least a small sacrifice for the benefit of the whole, which superficially seems to be at odds with evolutionary pressures that encourage individuals ...

A laser-driven particle accelerator just 9 centimetres long is gearing up to rival heavyweights like the Large Hadron Collider

Can we hope to study something as human as sex in any scientific way? A new exhibition and two books leave plenty of room for doubt

NASA's Mars rover has sniffed out short-lived bursts of methane, but whether it's Martian life or just a geological by-product is still unclear

A lot has changed in science, and science journalism, over the past 58 years - but our responsibilities remain the same

Unlike in mathematics, it is rare to have exact solutions to physics problems.

Regions of the world that experience extreme weather shifts due to climate change may become more vulnerable to the spread of cholera, scientists report.

The vast ice sheet covering Greenland could melt more quickly in the future than existing models predict, new research suggests.

Conventional Earthquake measurement equipment is not sensitive enough to quantify the slow moving "slip" of a fault in the Earth. Researchers are now using GPS tools to measure movement, which may help assess risks of de...

Four billion people are buying new smartphones every two years, massively outpacing the PC industry (where we buy 1.6 billion PCs every five years). Our desire for the most powerful,...

Although currently available diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detecting early signs of tumors, they are far from perfect, subjecting pati...

It's been called the greatest theory ever devised - we explain it using two spaceships, two clocks and a black hole (full text available to subscribers)

Volcano observations reveal jets of steam shooting out of the ice and lava moving like a giant caterpillar - although the lava type can make a big difference

(Phys.org)--A team of physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) outside of Washington D.C. has found a way to bring physics to the masses--they've designed and built a watt balance based on ...

Fabric laced with silver nanowires traps heat and could even be warmed up like an electric blanket

Smooth fan lobster larvae hop aboard passing jellyfish for a free ride and a gourmet meal. But to survive the trip they need a strict beauty regime