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The new "Jurassic World" movie trailer features growling, grunting and shrieking dinosaurs. These bellows may make for good entertainment at theaters, but do paleontologists actually know how dinosaurs sounded?

The past year has been a boom time for the commercial spaceflight industry, but alongside the successes have come failures, even tragedies.

How might heart problems be different in the future? A new study looks at cardiac arrests on Star Trek.

There are big differences between the missing AirAsia Flight 8501 and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared earlier this year.

Rust never sleeps. Whether a reference to the 1979 Neil Young album or a product designed to protect metal surfaces, the phrase invokes the idea that corrosion from oxidation--the more general chemical name for rust and ...

Graham Lawton attempts to get mashed on potatoes and sauced on sauce. It's a sobering insight into what really happens to the booze we cook with (full text available to subscribers)

The melting of Earth's polar ice came into starker relief in 2014, with real implications for sea level rise.

Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to research by City College of New York physicists led by Dr. Vi...

Using a 3d printer to visualize tiny molecules can help scientists develop new drugs and completely synthetic molecules.

The world's top minds gathered in China last month to compete in five classic tests of cognition, including Chess, Go and Draughts

Besides your passport, what really defines your nationality these days? Is it where you were live? Where you work? The language you speak? The currency you use? If it is,...

In the race to design the world's first universal quantum computer, a special kind of diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is playing a big role. NV centers consist of a nitrogen atom and a vacant site th...

From concert-hall designers to pop record producers, everyone in the music industry knows we love reverb. But why, asks sound guru Trevor Cox (full text available to subscribers)

The outcome of Supreme Court cases can be affected by how masculine a lawyer's voice sounds - but not in the way you might expect

(Phys.org)--Superconductivity - perhaps the leading example of emergent quantum behavior in matter - was discovered in 1911 but lacked theoretical explanation for almost five decades. In 1957, John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, ...

Supporters of the Whole30 elimination diet claim it can improve mental focus, trim waistlines and even improve serious health conditions such as diabetes, but experts don't agree on the diet's claims.

Thousands of people were evacuated after floods inundated the southern Philippines on Monday as tropical storm Seniang intensified and made landfall over Hinatuan town in Surigao del Sur. Two people died of accidents rel...

Want to name an alien world? Keep your ideas on a tight leash, advises astronomer Heather Couper

Public health groups treat smoking as an epidemic, arguing that we addressed it too late in many countries but can prevent it in others.

Ten years ago we witnessed one of the worst natural disasters in history, when a huge earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered a devastating tsunami which swept across the Indian Ocean.

(City College of New York) Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to research by City College of New Yo...

(DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory) A new study reveals that certain features of metal surfaces can stop the process of oxidation in its tracks. The findings could be relevant to understanding and perhaps controlling ox...