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If you put water in the freezer to make ice, you trigger a dynamic phase transition.

A bizarre crystal-like mineral recently found in a meteorite that crashed to Earth 15,000 years ago adds more support for the idea that the fragile structure can survive in nature. But how it formed at the beginning of t...

The catfish, with its dark, bulbous eyes and sucker mouth, resembles the wacky-looking bounty hunter, Greedo, in a "Star Wars" film. The fish lives along Brazil's Gurupi River.

The human self has five components. Machines now have three of them. How far away is artificial consciousness - and what does it tell us about ourselves? (full text available to subscribers)

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

Since its arrival in orbit around the Red Planet in October, the MAVEN mission has already found mysterious aurora and a dust cloud that researchers are scrambling to explain

Gyroscopes measure rotation in everyday technologies, from unmanned aerial vehicles to cell phone screen stabilizers.

A rare, 338-year-old copy of the Old Testament has been reunited with its twin, a copy of the same edition that was printed in Frankfurt, Germany, in the 1600s.

A cyanide-laced package sent to the White House may have been intended to scare people but was unlikely to sicken anybody who came in contact with it.

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A new study highlights the evolutionary history of two extinct mammals. Both were first collected by Charles Darwin, who speculated that the wacky mammals must be related to smaller ones still alive today. So sprung his ...

Romans, Vikings and Normans loom large in British history, but left hardly any genetic trace behind

Simply drawing with a pencil on paper turns out to be a great way of making cheap, but high-quality, sensors

Some 19,000 years ago, a woman was coated in red ochre and buried in a cave in northern Spain. What do her remains say about Paleolithic life in western Europe?

Write one brilliant line of dialogue and you could inspire hundreds of films at this festival - not to mention winning tickets plus a location-ready hard drive (full text available to subscribers)

The first, gory direct evidence of a feral cat killing and eating a 4-kilogram marsupial raises suspicions about what else they could be killing

A glacier the size of California in East Antarctica is in danger of melting away, which could lead to an extreme thaw increases sea levels by about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) worldwide if the glacier vanishes, a new study fi...

With the UK general election looming, New Scientist looks beyond the funding crisis to the disruptive forces that the politicians aren't talking about

From computers, tablets, and smartphones to cars, homes, and public transportation, our world is more digitally connected every day. The technology required to support the exchange of massive quantities of data is critic...

Surgery to cut out a tumour can sometimes aid its spread. Taking a compound that is naturally found in the heart can lower the odds of this happening

(Phys.org)--The possibility that other universes exist beyond our own universe is tantalizing, but seems nearly impossible to test. Now a group of physicists has suggested that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the larges...

"What is the greatest challenge humanity faces today?" This question was posed by Nick Haan, Director of Global Grand Challenges at Singularity University, to the audience gathered at this year's...