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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?

Mice that are already infected with the pathogen that causes Lyme disease appear to facilitate the spread of a lesser-known but emerging disease, babesiosis, into new areas. The finding provides a possible answer as to w...

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

A health care worker in Scotland has been diagnosed with Ebola, shortly after returning from treating patients with the disease in Sierra Leone, according to the National Health Service of the United Kingdom.

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...

Gelatin is used in the pharmaceutical industry to encapsulate active agents. It protects against oxidation and overly quick release. Tiny pores in the material have a significant influence on this, yet they are difficult...

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...

What's red and white and feathered all over? A northern cardinal with the plumage of both a male and female

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.

(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...