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(Phys.org)--Physicists have proposed a mechanism for "cosmological collapse" that predicts that the universe will soon stop expanding and collapse in on itself, obliterating all matter as we know it. Their calculations s...

Originally published: Mar 20 2015 - 2:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ben P. Stein, Director(Inside Science) -- Testing whether a drug is safe and effective usually takes many years and millions of dollars. Now, res...

Contrary to the statistician's slogan, in the quantum world, certain kinds of correlations do imply causation.

Taken together, monitors and personal computers draw electricity equivalent to the energy from three dozen power plants -- but that energy sink may soon get plugged.

A two-week-long seafaring mission off the coast of western Australia has helped illuminate a deep and dark underwater abyss the size of the Grand Canyon.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field.

Does taking a drug and then getting better mean that the drug made you better? Did that tax cut really stimulate the economy or did it recover on its own? The problem of answering such questions - of inferring causal rel...

An ancient melting pot of diverse hunter-gatherers uniting to build ceremonial sites may have been the start of big Maya cities

An ancient melting pot of diverse hunter-gatherers uniting to build ceremonial sites may have been the start of big Mayan cities

A virtual recreation of the tornado that hit Oklahoma in 2013 could provide a more effective way of monitoring storms as they progress

Scientists at the University of Western Australia used a robotic sub to explore Perth Canyon, a relatively unstudied ocean gorge that is roughly the same size as the Grand Canyon.

Human waste contains enough valuable metals that it could be worth mining, but we'll need to find the right approach

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Could worms be used to detect cancer early? Roundworms have been found to sniff out tumours, leading to hopes for a simple diagnostic test

Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field.

A weak WHO, an international emergency declared too late and government secrecy about disease are being blamed for the slow response to Ebola

As part of Singularity University's Future of Work series, I had a chance to sit down with Neil Jacobstein, the co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics track. Neil has...

Singularity Hub is devoting this week to exploring a topic on many of people's minds recently: The Future of Work. Have we already entered an era where exponentially growing technologies,...

Last week's eclipse put power grids to the test as solar output dipped and then rose suddenly, but no major problems were reported

For most of the last century, the study of emotions was not considered serious science. The problem was subjectivity. Science is objective, rigorously objective. Emotions, though, are internal states, so...

What I love about the annual TED gathering in Vancouver is the way science coexists along with art, social justice, popular song and the rest of TED's eclectic mix. --

A side of superbugs with your steak? Farm animals are fed 63,000 tonnes of antibiotics a year, exacerbating the problem of antibiotic resistance