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The Large Hadron Collider is being brought back to life, ready for Run II of the "world's greatest physics experiment". Cambridge physicists are among the army who keep it alive.

As automation and the internet sweep away employment certainties even for the creative classes, three books explore the depth of our predicament

(Phys.org)--Superconductivity occurs when electrons experience no resistance as they travel through conducting material. However temperatures must be near absolute zero, making superconductivity. In 1986 scientists disco...

From KQED Education Do Now: The UK recently voted to authorize mitochondrial DNA modification, which has been dubbed the "three-person embryo" law. Should we modify DNA in human eggs or embryos in order to prevent diseas...

The traits that you thought you inherited from your mom may have been actually passed from her to you in bacteria that she spread to you soon after birth, a new study finds.

Frequency combs are the rulers of light. By counting a wavelength's many oscillations, they measure distance and time with extraordinary precision and speed.

The Obama administration announced a much-anticipated set of rules to govern the use of commercial drones, but experts say the new requirements will hold back parts of the burgeoning industry.

Colorful satellite maps show how ocean acidification varies across the globe, a first step toward monitoring this side effect of climate change from space.

A trove of nearly 2,000 gold coins that date to about 1,000 years ago was discovered under water off the coast of Israel.

The past century has generated some creative ideas for tracking particles. Hans had been waiting in the darkened room for 45 minutes. It was a dull part of his day, but acclimating his eyes was a necessary part of his ex...

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds and lower power consumption, even in harsh environments.

Research teams from Paris, Madrid and Berlin have observed for the first time how magnetic domains mutually influence one another at interfaces of spintronic components. Using measurements taken at BESSY II, they could d...

Despite their tuxedo style, when it comes to enjoying food, penguins have poor taste, a new study finds.

ADHD is more than common, it's normal.

An Audi TTS tears around a California racetrack hitting speeds of 120 miles an hour and finessing turns like an elite driver. And it is an elite driver. Just not...

While treating patients in a psychiatric ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman becomes consumed in a hunt to defeat her own demons.

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds and lower power consumption, even in harsh environments.

The leaders of the three major political parties in the UK have agreed to act on global warming, regardless of who wins the May election

One of the richest beds of manganese nodules ever found on the Atlantic seafloor was discovered last month while trolling for deep-sea creatures between South America and Africa.

Pristinely preserved bodies at the Badia Pozzeveri cemetery in Tuscany, Italy, could hold the DNA of the cholera bacteria that killed them during an 1850s epidemic. Understanding the disease's evolution could lead to a c...

This tiny workshop is one of thousands in China where our gadgets go to die - poisoning land and people on their way out

Scientists from Ghent University and imec announce today that they demonstrated interaction between light and sound in a nanoscale area. Their findings elucidate the physics of light-matter coupling at these scales - and...