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New nanoscale technology could have wide-ranging applications in multiple industries.

New images of the recent eruption of one of Chile's most active volcanoes reveal how powerful blasts of lava and ash blanketed the mountain's side with volcanic material.

Every year, math enthusiasts celebrate Pi Day on March 14, because the date spells the first three digits (3.14) of pi, or π, the mathematical constant that represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diamet...

The world's largest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, has potentially delivered one of physics' "Holy Grails" in the form of the Higgs boson. Much of the science came down to one number - 126, the Higgs boso...

Watch this demonstration of Boyle's Law that shows how changes in pressure affect a fish's swim bladder.

Another U.S. healthcare worker who was working in Africa has tested positive for Ebola, and is returning to the U.S. for treatment, health officials say.

National Science Foundation (NSF) mathematician Tom Russell recites a long string of the irrational number. Several others at the NSF's Program Staff had a go at the number from memory as well.

We have the tools to prevent further destruction of ancient Assyrian history and we need to use them now

The surprise plateauing of carbon emissions even as the global economy grew may be a one-off event fuelled by several factors

The pistons in your car engine rub up against their cylinder walls thousands of times a minute; without lubrication in the form of motor oil, they and other parts of the engine would quickly wear away, causing engine fai...

New evidence reveals that the ancient coral tombs of Leluh in Micronesia could be up to 700 years old -- much older than previously thought.

A virtual-reality demonstration of weightlessness gives a weird floating system that probably doesn't mimic a true microgravity environment.

Stunning lightning storms inside of towering volcanic ash clouds created tiny glass balls.

All the latest on newscientist.com: the Barry Whites of the horse world, wireless brain stimulation, why algorithms are a bookie's friend, and more

A machine automatically constructs components needed to make medicines from a set of simple building blocks

Water bears, not polar bears, rule the glacial holes that are hotspots for invertebrates. But the very dust which helps the holes form may lead to their demise

The Anthropocene geological era is not just the sum of our environmental problems, says Christian Schwägerl. It may also prove to be the age of humility

There's a story about Napoleon that goes something like this: At a state dinner, he gave his soldiers silver utensils and his court gold. But the guest of honor, the...

Every day around the world, lightning strikes the ground about 10 times per second. That's nearly one million strikes a day! In the U.S. there are 20 million strikes on average every year, and now David Romps, an atmosph...

Bookmaker Alan Glynn explains how he needs both mathematical models and human judgement to set betting odds (full text available to subscribers)

The computing and telecommunications industries have ambitious plans for the future: Systems that will store information in the cloud, analyze enormous amounts of data, and think more like a brain than a standard compute...

Millions of years ago, plant seeds started spinning like rotors in order to be dispersed by the wind, but they had to lose one of two wings to do it well