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(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working in Italy has successfully conducted an experiment to directly measure gravity's curvature for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the...

Dogs may be very well suited to help us understand how these lifestyle factors help our brains as we get older.

Dogs may have arrived in the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after humans first did, researchers say.

The past year saw slightly fewer big earthquakes than the year before, but some areas unfamiliar with seismicity got the shakes, possibly due in part to oil drilling activities.

New ways to decode animal chatter reveal a lot about what they are saying. And the answers could unravel human language too (full text available to subscribers)

A protein known to have antidepressant effects in the brain may also improve heart health, a new study finds.

A machine-learning algorithm can now predict your personality using nothing but what you like on Facebook - and it knows you better than your family does

Our brains and those of chimpanzees are built differently in the areas that give us our unique language and social skills

A type of aphid that usually peacefully serves ants can turn on its masters, infiltrating their nests and feasting on the blood of their young

After more than six years of grinding and polishing, the first-ever dual-surface mirror for a major telescope is complete. In March 2008, a group of people gathered around a giant, red oven in a six-story workshop space ...

The number of exhibits combining science and art in some capacity has grown steadily since I began blogging about them in 2011. With exhibits in galleries and museums across the country,... --

As Arctic permafrost thaws due to rising global temperatures, soil microbes may speed up the rate at which they liberate carbon into the atmosphere.

Do you need to be extraordinary? Wealthy and white? Or can anyone be creative? Three books come at the question from different angles

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Originally published: Jan 6 2015 - 8:45am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Charles Q. Choi, Contributor(Inside Science) -- A laser could be created with air in a practical way, a new advance that could one day be used to ...

Museum workers opened a time capsule originally buried in 1795 by Sam Adams and Paul Revere.

The remains of a 415-million-year-old fish skull from Siberia -- though miniscule in size -- offer hints about the origins of all jawed vertebrates, ranging from reptiles to humans, a new study finds.

When researchers first looked at a tiny fish skull from 415 million years ago, they classified it as a bony fish. But a new, high-tech look at the fossil shows that it's much more.

The 415-million-year-old Janusiscus fossil was discovered in Siberia. A study of the skull reveals that it is on the botton of the gnathostomes' (jawed vertebrates) evolutionary tree.

San Francisco artist Andres Amador makes monumental designs on the beach with naught but a rake and some wet sand. He's mindblowingly good at sand art--but he's got competition. A...

A team of scientists has identified how a "sixth sense" in fish allows them to detect flows of water, which helps resolve a long-standing mystery about how these aquatic creatures respond to their environment. Their find...

It's a new year and fad diets are back. But there's mounting evidence for a healthier way to keep you trim and healthy - changing your environment