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A team of scientists at UCL led by Peter Barker and Tania Monteiro (UCL Physics and Astronomy) has developed a new technology which could one day create quantum phenomena in objects far larger than any achieved so far. T...

The curious velvet worms use Spiderman's tactic to catch prey and fend off predators - a technique that may help us stick wounds together

A team of researchers in the United Kingdom has found a way to redesign an artificial connection between an artery and vein, known as an Arterio-Venous Fistulae, which surgeons form in the arms of people with end-stage r...

Using the quantum property of superposition, quantum computers will be able to find target items within large piles of data far faster than conventional computers ever could. But the speed of the search will likely depen...

For every one new coal plant, two were shelved or cancelled since 2010, a change that may be reducing our carbon dioxide emissions

Winter storms dumped records amounts of snow on the East Coast and other regions of the country this February, leaving treacherous, icy sidewalks and roads in their wake. Now researchers from Canada are developing new me...

When should you bluff and when should you fold? To decide, players need to understand probability, says professional gambler Vanessa Selbst (full text available to subscribers)

Never mind the outspoken Christian leaders who reject the Big Bang and human evolution; nearly 70 percent of rank-and-file evangelicals in the United States say they don't see religion and science as being totally at odd...

A ring with a rose-colored stone constitutes evidence for direct interactions between the Vikings and the Islamic world.

Graphene, a strong, lightweight carbon honeycombed structure that's only one atom thick, holds great promise for energy research and development. Recently scientists with the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Tr...

Last Thursday I reported on the launch of a new quad of NASA satellites, called the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS), which are designed to measure the dynamics of the Earth's magnetic field and a poorly-understood proces...

All the latest on newscientist.com: how wolf-dogs hounded out Neanderthals, crows' generosity, Mars One hiccup, a worm with Spiderman tactics, and more

A shortlisted candidate for a mooted one-way trip to Mars has spoken out about problems with plans for the ambitious mission

Artificial intelligence like the kind seen in the movies is getting real, as researchers work on robots with feelings like Chappie.

UNSW Australia scientists have developed a highly efficient oxygen-producing electrode for splitting water that has the potential to be scaled up for industrial production of the clean energy fuel, hydrogen. The new tech...

A surreal image of a nanocarbon structure that is being developed to improve display screens is the winner of a recent photo competition

Winter storms dumped records amounts of snow on the East Coast and other regions of the country this February, leaving treacherous, icy sidewalks and roads in their wake. Now researchers from Canada are developing new me...

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider joined forces to make the most precise measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson yet. On the dawn of the Large Hadron Collider restart, the CMS and ATLAS collab...

How you buy real estate is changing. Forever. This post is about the two key exponential technologies converging to eliminate the middle-man (i.e. the real estate broker) and the headache of...

Scientists in Hamburg have resorted to a physical trick to persuade entire groups of molecules to perform synchronized cartwheels, virtually endlessly. This technique opens up new opportunities for imaging molecules and ...

How would you behave in a catastrophic event? I'm exploring how we do it in virtual worlds to help us prepare, says Matthieu Guitton

What lies beneath growing islands of graphene is important to its properties, according to a new study led by Rice University.