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Children with peanut allergies who tried a new treatment involving probiotics wound up being able to eat peanuts without a reaction, a new study from Australia says.

This week in the journal Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers reveal a new solution-based hot-casting technique that allows growth of highly efficient and reproducible solar cells from large-area perovskit...

Even with the physics sorted out, questions remain --

A new study by a team of physicists at Rice University, Zhejiang University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Florida State University and the Max Planck Institute adds to the growing body of evidence supporting a theory ...

No, steaming your vagina will not balance female hormones, cure infertility or reduce menstrual cramps.

A new study puts earlier discovery claims into perspective. A previous study claiming the discovery of gravitational waves as cosmic inflation’s fingerprint has most likely been over-interpreted, scientists found in a ...

A once-thriving Mesoamerican metropolis dried up about 1,000 years ago when below-average rainfall triggered centuries-long droughts that largely prompted people to abandon the city for greener opportunities, a new study...

Layer by layer, scientists have filled in the hidden expanse of Greenland's vast ice sheet, revealing where the island hides its oldest ice.

Seven thousand year-old rock paintings in the Sahara desert have, somewhat serendipitously, helped uncover evidence of ancient lake beds.

ETs may be tiny, but we'll find them.

Some news stories are about iterative steps, others about significant strides. Then there's this week's batch of stories that, one way or another, are all about moonshots. We know that the future will be...

Start with the ideal gas law: PV=nRTRearrange Article TL:DR? Try this chart instead. P/T=nR/VUse a little logicP1/T1=nR/V=P2/T2  or P1/T1=P2/T2Rearrange again to getT2(P1/T1)=P2 Now just plug in the numbers, bearing in ...

The "thirst for oil" is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention ...

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: January 30, 1915 X-rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in late... --

Larks and night owls perform drastically better if a sporting event is timed to suit their circadian rhythm

(Phys.org) --The quintessential feature of a black hole is its "point of no return," or what is more technically called its event horizon. When anything--a star, a particle, or wayward human--crosses this horizon, the bl...

The extreme deformities caused by bone cancer push the human body to its limits. Our amazing ability to adapt could inspire future architecture

Dermal modification is a significant part of evolution, says Ranajay Ghosh, an associate research scientist in the College of Engineering. Almost every organism has something on its skin that provides important survival ...

In particle physics, it's our business to understand structure. I work on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and this machine lets us see and study the smallest structure of all; unimaginably tiny fundamental particles, hel...

Being urged to optimise every aspect of our lives to improve well-being is sometimes counterproductive, say André Spicer and Carl Cederström

Scientists at DESY have developed and implemented an optical synchronisation system for the soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH, achieving facility-wide synchronisation with femtosecond precision. The performance of the...

Facebook is a more positive than negative place, but users spreading happy news actually try not to brag, a new study finds.