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In a chapter excerpted from his new book science writer Philip Ball describes “Aryan physics” and other ludicrous ideas that accompanied the rise of Adolf Hitler --

Milky white rain poured down on eastern Washington state and northeast Oregon on a wintery morning last week.

UK commuters spend an average of about 1.5 hours a day at the wheel. Road vehicles in particular are known to emit polluting nanoparticles which contribute to respiratory and heart diseases. Now, researchers at the Unive...

An estimated 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. Age-related macular degeneration alone is the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the Western world. But this week at the AAAS Annual Meeting ...

When you're waking up or falling asleep, do you ever feel like you can't move your body? Maybe you also have hallucinations that there's a malevolent presence pressing down on you. If so, you may suffer from sleep paraly...

As you heat up a piece of iron, the arrangement of the iron atoms changes several times before melting. This unusual behavior is one reason why steel, in which iron plays a starring role, is so sturdy and ubiquitous in e...

A bacterium that lives in our mouths, sometimes causing gum disease, appears to inhibit immune cells that would normally attack colon cancer

Astronomers have uncovered a giant dust ring after mapping the 3D distribution of dust in the well-studied celestial region of Orion

Vi Rapp is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who designs clean, efficient, wood-burning cookstoves for communities around the world.

Apparently you can put on your thinking cap . . . though don't try this at home.

How to (safely) give the brain a little electro-boost.

Women want commitment, men want sex, right? It turns out that the stereotypes are baloney and, what's more, our tastes are changing (full text available to subscribers)

With a British election looming, an exhibition on BSE stands as an awful warning to politicians who put business interests before public trust

All the latest from newscientist.com: Interstellar's true black hole, how much plastic really ends up in the ocean and a telescopic contact lens

Communication security and metrology could be enhanced through a study of the role of quantum correlations in the distinguishability of physical processes, by researchers at the Universities of Strathclyde and Waterloo.

DNA tests have confirmed that an endangered gray wolf killed in Utah in December was the same lone wolf that had been spotted and photographed near Arizona's Grand Canyon, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced thi...

Communication security and metrology could be enhanced through a study of the role of quantum correlations in the distinguishability of physical processes, by researchers at the Universities of Strathclyde and Waterloo.

In addition to good looks, charm and intelligence, there's a more surprising reason two people may choose to spend Valentine's Day together: having similar microbes.

Somewhere in the long list of topics that are relevant to astrobiology is the question of ‘intelligence’. Is human-like, technological intelligence likely to be common across the universe? --

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: February 13, 1915 German Zeppelins (airships with rigid frames) bombed Liège, Belgium, on August 6, 1914, only a few days after the... --

There's now a technology to replace almost everything in your wallet. Your cash, credit cards, and loyalty programs are all on their way to becoming obsolete. Money can now be...

In a chapter excerpted from his new book, science writer Philip Ball describes “Aryan physics” and other ludicrous ideas that accompanied the rise of Adolf Hitler --