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Research conducted at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, may lead to greatly improved security of information transfer over the internet.

Not content with winning quiz shows, IBM's Watson supercomputer is now injecting a little creativity into your kitchen. Niall Firth pulls on his apron

You don't need a multi-million-dollar budget to find alien worlds - off-the-shelf scopes rigged together can spot our cosmic neighbours too

Anger at government conservation schemes can cause a backlash from local communities that threatens to undermine the future of the world's charismatic beasts

The intricacies of tiny marine microbes are revealed in a new photographic art exhibit in Boston.

Scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics that can kill a wide range of dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria.

An antibiotic discovered using a method that coaxes "unculturable" bacteria to grow in the lab could have a longer lifespan than current drugs

To spread around the body, cancer cells learn how to move in different environments, taking cues from wound-healing cells and white blood cells. We now know how

Splash form tektites are tiny pieces of natural glass created out of spinning drops of molten rock flung from the earth during an extra-terrestrial impact--when the earth is hit by asteroids or comets. They come in a myr...

Scientists at University College London, in collaboration with groups at the University of Bath and the Daresbury Laboratory, have uncovered the mystery of why blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are so difficult to make, ...

Researchers have discovered a group of female phorid flies that bite off ant heads and then haul them away for dinner.

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US government may add monarch butterfly to endangered species list after its population dropped 90 per cent in 20 years to 35 million last year

Shinichi Mochizuki tried to prove a long-standing pure maths problem in 2012, but now complains people can't get to grips with his 500-page work

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered its 1,000th alien planet, further cementing the mission's status as a space-science legend. Kepler has found more than half of all known exoplanets to date, and the numbers wi...

Divers find nearly 40 metal ingots from a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily that was lost in the sixth century.

Radiation is most infamous for its harmful effects on living things, but when used properly, it can have some beneficial effects as well. Radioisotopes, radioactive versions of ordinary elements, can trace the paths of s...

Almost three-quarter of parents don't follow the safety advice to use rear-facing car seats for their toddlers until the child turns 2, a new study finds.

If robots and AI are our technological children (and of course they are!), what's the best way to teach them about the world? Why, the internet, of course. Using the popular deep...

Researchers from Berlin Joint EPR Lab at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and University of Washington (UW) derived a new set of equations that allows for calculating electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) transition probab...

(Phys.org)--While the performance of electronic memory devices degrades at high temperatures, a newly proposed memory actually requires temperatures in excess of 600 K to operate. Called NanoThermoMechanical memory, the ...

Fossils of a newfound flying fish species may help scientists understand just how the ability to glide evolved.