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Researchers have discovered five new species of tiny, shimmering spiders with glittery bellies.

Scientists designed tiny spacesuits for insects to allow them to survive in the intense vacuum while being imaged in an electron microscope.

Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core. Iron is a metal, which mea...

An initiative in New York is using machine learning to figure out who's most likely to donate blood - and what's best to say to encourage them

The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy - but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene (full text available to subscribers)

Studying seasonality and the ebb and flow of resources helps this researcher predict animal population growth and decline.

We can reverse the planet's warming, but not with a "wait and see" approach.

Months before the UN climate summit in Paris, India has set ambitious new targets for renewable energy, and will now have access to US know-how

Google, a long-time supporter of Singularity University (SU), has agreed to a two-year, $3 million contribution to SU's flagship Graduate Studies Program (GSP). Google will become the program's title sponsor and ensure.....

Four million people in Brazil's south-east powerhouse have been hit by water rationing and blackouts in the country's worst drought on record

Discovery of partial skull in Israel may provide insights on humans' migration out of Africa and when they first interbred with Neanderthals.

Sunshine police take note, the latest guidelines from the UK's health advisory body NICE suggest we should actively seek out some rays

After four weeks, I’m now halfway through teaching a business journalism course at Ottawa’s Algonquin College, my first such extended gig. (I have done many one-off lectures over the years, but this was my first regu...

Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core. Iron is a metal, which mea...

Ever since Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, physics and cosmology have been based on the assumption that space looks the same in all directions - that it's not squeezed in one direction relativ...

The brains of violent criminals who are psychopathic are different from even those of violent criminals who are not psychopathic, new research finds.

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for engineering recognises the huge contribution engineers make to our everyday lives, says The Duke of Edinburgh

Mitochondria produce ATP, the energy currency of the body. The driver for this process is an electrochemical membrane potential, which is created by a series of proton pumps. These complex, macromolecular machines are co...

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Supernovae were thought to need help from a nearby star – if they don't, we may have to rethink how we measure cosmic distances as well as dark energy

Although terahertz spectroscopy has great potential, especially for environmental monitoring and security screening applications, it previously could not be used effectively to study nanocrystals or molecules at extremel...

The idea of computing systems based on controlling atomic spins just got a boost from new research performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven Nationa...