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Where a moth mates for the first time helps decide the location of future liaisons, and where they lay their eggs

Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven-year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun... --

Though Ben Carson claimed that being gay is a choice, science suggests that's not the case.

Lawrence Livermore researchers have identified electrical charge-induced changes in the structure and bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that may one day affect the way energy is stored.

The 2,500-year-old tomb of an ancient Celtic prince has been unearthed, and the tomb contains stunning bronze vessels and other signs of wealth.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have captured the first real-time nanoscale images of lithium dendrite structures known to degrade lithium-ion batteries. The ORNL team's electron mi...

An unfounded fear of competition is driving anti-immigration sentiment in the West, but successful integration is possible, says a psychologist

Whether you're king of the spin or lacking in confidence, brain activity reveals clues as to the way others assess how much you believe in what you're saying

With more than five times the thermal conductivity of copper, diamond is the ultimate heat spreader. But the slow rate of heat flow into diamond from other materials limits its use in practice. In particular, the physica...

From its vantage point around one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, Dawn could unlock a time capsule from the formation of our solar system

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a Celtic prince dating to the fifth century B.C. inside of a giant funerary complex in Lavau. Take a look at photos from the discovery.

The percentage of Americans who consider vaccines crucial for children has declined slightly in the past decade, according to a new survey.

Jen-Luc Piquant was at the APS March Meeting in San Antonio, Texas this week, a longtime favorite conference, and often touted as the largest physics conference of the year, covering a diverse range... --

Monsters of the deep are the latest creatures to be immortalised by an infusion of plastic

Four geologists in Iceland had the hottest job on Earth this week. To capture accurate measurements of toxic volcanic gases, the scientists climbed directly into Baugur crater on Wednesday.

Amazing photos from a climb into Iceland's recently active Baugur crater to measure volcanic gases.

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working in China has developed a technique that allowed them to observe spin in a portion of a cell cycle. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their techn...

I'm not a scold about scientific accuracy in film. As long as a movie is not built on a fundamentally stupid premise (“Lucy,” the Scarlet Johansson vehicle predicated on the false notion... --

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: March 6, 1915 World War I was an artillery war. Even as new technology—tanks, airplanes, submarines and poison gas—changed the... --

Any blurry observations of distant objects could suggest the universe itself is blurry at a minute scale, and hint at how to build a theory of quantum gravity

A laser weapon made by Lockheed Martin can stop a small truck dead in its tracks from more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away, the company announced this week.

From macaws to tapirs, wildlife are struggling to survive as landscapes burn.