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(Phys.org) --The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dar...

Originally Published: February 6, 2015 2:15 PM, Inside ScienceBy: Sara Rennekamp, Editor(Inside Science, Currents Blog) -- Henry Cavendish was an odd man. He never addressed strangers directly and was petrified of women....

People who are under a lot of stress don't recover from heart attacks as well as those who feel less pressure, new research shows.

The crowning achievement of the 18th-century researcher was the design of the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in a lab --

Metamaterials - artificial nanostructures engineered with electromagnetic properties not found in nature - offer tantalizing future prospects such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers. T...

Traces of air pollution from 16th-century Spanish silver mines were discovered deep inside an ice cap in the Peruvian Andes.

New research from UCL and the Universities of Gdansk, Singapore, and Delft has uncovered additional second laws of thermodynamics which complement the ordinary second law of thermodynamics, one of the most fundamental la...

They've been called fish thieves, riverbank wreckers and alien invaders. But the slaughter of cormorants isn't justified, says conservation biologist Linda Wires (full text available to subscribers)

From six-toed cats to miniature Spider-men, Junk DNA by Nessa Carey is a wide-ranging survey of a controversial, ever-changing field

Imagine never having to go to a lab for a blood test again. Never waiting days for results or paying through the nose for a single test. Instead, you attach...

The Universe is pervaded by a mysterious form of matter, dubbed dark matter, about five times more abundant than the ordinary matter--made of atoms--we are familiar with. Its existence in galaxies was robustly establishe...

Check out amazing rocks from the Alamo impact crater in Nevada.

Evidence provided by pulverized rocks offers the most comprehensive view yet of Alamo crater, the most accessible impact crater in North America.

A political reality TV show and a tool for meeting like-minded voters are just two of the ideas dreamed up to boost participation in US politics

In this U.Mass study, parents of one group of 6 to 9-month-olds gave unique names to pictures of objects; another called all objects of the same type by their generic label.

Time-lapse images have helped uncover the molecular messages that drive the formation of a kidney

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Artists, print designers and interior decorators have long had access to a broad palette of paint and ink colors for their work. Now, researchers have created a broad color palette of electrochromic polymers, materials t...

We all like to know our watches keep the time well, but Hidetoshi Katori, of RIKEN's Quantum Metrology Laboratory and the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering, is taking precision to an entirely new dimen...

From your dishwasher making chloroform to your scented candles reacting with ozone, we are turning our homes into crucibles of unpredictable chemistry (full text available to subscribers)

Joanna Austin (MS '98, PhD '03) does not just go with the flow. She picks it apart and analyzes it. One of the newest faculty members in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science is a gas dynamicist, Austin s...

We've come a long way in 13.8 billion years; but despite our impressively extensive understanding of the Universe, there are still a few strings left untied. For one, there is the oft-cited disconnect between general rel...