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(Phys.org)--It has been a desire, if not a dream for many throughout human history, to create a device that allows for seeing through walls (ala Superman), inside the human body or through a shield so that the enemy can ...

Diamonds come in all colours with price tags to match - ice-white, blue and pink attract high prices and stones with brown hues the least. But now that brown diamonds can be heat-treated to remove the darker colour to pr...

The spring is a marvel of human engineering and creativity. For one, it comes in so many varieties - the compression spring, the extension spring, the torsion spring, the coil spring, etc. - all of which serve different ...

Don't go shopping on an empty stomach – you will buy more stuff and spend more money when you're hungry

The country's low fertility rate means it depends on migrants to boost its population and keep it youthful

Although potent skunk cannabis is linked this week with psychosis, another dope ingredient may ease symptoms

It's one of the most critical events in the development of life on Earth. But we may have been thinking about it all wrong, say David and Buzz Baum (full text available to subscribers)

A report from the UK's Civil Justice Council recommends a system to let people work out their differences online

On Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a proposal for laws governing unmanned aerial aircraft in the US – and it's mixed news

Have you heard of the Hyperloop? It's the concept described as "a cross between a Concorde, a railgun and a bullet train." Think: Los Angeles to Vegas in 20 minutes or...

Would you serve penguins lemon sole? It might go down well: genetic screening shows they haven't the chemical tools for anything but salty and sour flavours

Just over 8 years ago on January 9, 2007, the first iPhone was launched at MacWorld and the modern era of mobile computing was born. Steve Jobs began that historical announcement saying, "Every...

In 2012, amateur astronomers spotted at least one unidentified object rising into the Martian sky. Could auroras, volcanoes or aliens be to blame?

Mindfulness meditation may help improve sleep troubles in older adults, a new study suggests.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the MATGAS research centre, the Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" and the Politecnico di Milano have designed a method which indirectly measures the viscosity o...

Over the past few days, the SPS has been accelerating argon ions, which have started to be sent to the NA61/SHINE experiment. This operating mode, using a new type of ion, required a number of modifications to the accele...

San Jose, California was the place to be for science this week. The American Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting there, featuring talks and lectures and exhibits from across all fields o...

Dissection wasn't always a precise art. A rare specimen of a skull cut in half gives insight into the history of investigating human remains

A simple physical mechanism that can be assimilated to folding, or buckling, means that an unformed mass of cells can change in a single step into an embryo organized as a typical vertebrate. This is the main conclusion ...

Five years ago, a research team at Michigan Technological University and Universidad Nacional Autanoma de Mexico (National University of Mexico) detected tiny, super-fast raindrops. The finding was unexpected--small drop...

We can create twisters and other bizarre winds at the touch of a button, says wind researcher Maryam Refan, who has stood in the eye of the storm

Teens are getting even less sleep than they used to, new research finds.