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A low-cost visualisation system is allowing environmental engineers to make field visits without having to travel

Researchers at MIT who succeeded last year in creating a material that could trap light and stop it in its tracks have now developed a more fundamental understanding of the process. The new work--which could help explain...

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) announced the establishment of 11 Genomic Medicine Centers to achieve an ambitious goal of decoding and collecting the complete genetic codes of 100,000 people by 2017. The aim of t...

There has been dramatic improvement in the fight against Ebola in some parts of West Africa, however, in other places, much work needs to be done, U.S. health officials said today (Dec. 22).

Scientists have long wanted to know whether modern hands are related to the fins of fish, and now a new study finally reveals these structures are, indeed, related.

From the star of Bethlehem to the baby in the manger, experts don't agree on how much of the biblical Christmas narrative is true.

Sound waves can precisely position groups of cells for study without the danger of changing or damaging the cells, according to a team of Penn State researchers who are using surface acoustic waves to manipulate cell spa...

So you're an alien seeding primordial Earth with life. Like any creator, you sign your work. Now we may have found that signature - in the genetic code (full text available to subscribers)

Originally published: Dec 22 2014 - 11:45am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Katharine Gammon, Contributor(Inside Science) -- Residents of the Northern Hemisphere, don't worry about the winter solstice - it's not the midd...

Charge order has been established in another class of cuprate superconductors, highlighting the importance of the phenomenon as a general property of these high-Tc materials.

Television, cellphones, radio, WiFi--modern civilization converses in radio waves. Most of us need some kind of device to translate the signals into something we can consume on a screen or...

Amidst a new spirit of cooperation, Cuban research could help address key threats facing the US, says a champion of cross-border scientific cooperation

Quantum computers will someday perform calculations impossible for conventional digital computers. But for that to happen, the core quantum information must be preserved against contamination from the environment. In oth...

Greenland's disappearing ice shifted gears in the past decade, switching from shrinking glaciers to surface melting, researchers reported at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting.

Give in to your inner tech geek and decorate your home or workspace with the things you love -- like old floppy disk drives and circuit boards.

Next time you get the itch to check Facebook on your mobile phone, why not scroll through the latest unsolved physics mysteries instead? Now a free app for Android and Apple devices called The Particle Adventure makes ch...

India's southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are dealing with swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, which has so far killed eight people in the two states. In the country's north, officials are attempting t...

A staggering number of people believe the unbelievable. How should we respond, ask political scientists Eric Oliver and Tom Wood

(University College London) UCL researchers have developed an innovative way to understand how the brain works by using flashes of light, allowing them to both 'read' and 'write' brain signals.The new technique, describe...

(University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute) Cells have finger-like projections that they use to feel their surroundings. They can detect the chemical environment and they can 'feel' their physical surroundings usin...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) The combination of the common antibiotic clarithromycin with some statins increases the risk of adverse events, which may require hospital admission for older people, according to a...

(University of Cambridge) Latest analysis of prehistoric bones show there is no anatomical reason why a person born today could not develop the skeletal strength of a prehistoric forager or a modern orangutan. Findings s...