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Borrowing a trick from nature, engineers from the University of California at Berkeley have created an incredibly thin, chameleon-like material that can be made to change color--on demand--by simply applying a minute amo...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has installed and commissioned the highest peak power laser diode arrays in the world, representing total peak power of 3.2 megawatts (MW).

A rare leatherback turtle stranded on a remote South Carolina beach was released back into the wild today (March 12).

After centuries pondering whether we are fortune's fools, we are still struggling to work out if the cosmos is predictable or ruled by chance (full text available to subscribers)

A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry what 3-D printing did for engineering: Make it fast, flexible and accessible to anyone.

A rocket booster designed to blast rockets into deep space has had a successful major ground test

The G20 countries want to pour $70 trillion into new infrastructure worldwide. It's a disaster in the making, warns environmental scientist William Laurance

Deep brain stimulation has promise for treating depression, but it involves invasive surgery. Nanoparticles inspired by chilli could make it more palatable

The world's largest particle accelerator, which famously discovered the long-sought Higgs boson in 2012, will soon start up again at almost double the energy of its first run.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has led to a dramatic drop in measles vaccinations in the region, leaving millions of children potentially at risk for catching the disease, a new study suggests.

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig and the University of Aarhus in Denmark demonstrated for the first time Cou...

As the world warms, the Arctic is warming faster than mid-latitudes - a pattern that disrupts northern hemisphere weather systems, causing longer heatwaves

The Chinese Jade Rabbit lunar rover reveals that the moon's geological history is complex and violent

Every year, thousands of people die from exposure to the cold across the United States. But there are far more of these cold-related deaths in rural counties in the West than there are in other areas of the country, a ne...

Europe's physics lab CERN said Thursday it had begun tests in preparation for rebooting the world's biggest particle collider and trying to uncover new particles that could alter our understanding of the Universe.

In conjunction with this magazine's inclusion on the March 12 episode of The Big Bang Theory, here's an edited version of a talk by the sitcom's science advisor, U.C.L.A. physicist David Saltzberg,... --

A puzzling observation, pursued through hundreds of experiments, has led Stanford researchers to a simple yet profound discovery: under certain circumstances, droplets of fluid will move like performers in a dance choreo...

The Founding Fathers of the United States considered intellectual property so important that they gave it a special place in the Constitution: "To promote the progress of science and useful...

Hubble Space Telescope images reveal Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has a secret sea – just a day after a similar find on Saturn's moon Enceladus

OPPONENTS of genetically modified crops often complain that moving genes between species is unnatural. Leaving aside the fact that the whole of agriculture is unnatural, this is still an odd worry. It has been known for ...

The wreck of the Musashi, one of the biggest warships ever built, was rediscovered only last week after an eight-year search by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

On March 9th André Borschberg, a Swiss fighter pilot and engineer, took off from Abu Dhabi at the controls of this flimsy solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, on the first leg of a journey around the world. Despite ...