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Boosting a person's smarts through drugs or electrical or magnetic stimulation of the brain is becoming increasingly widespread. Now, bioethicists weigh in, saying that while such cognitive enhancement is neither bad nor...

Antibiotic resistance is poised to spread globally among bacteria frequently implicated in respiratory and urinary infections in hospital settings, according to new research.

One twin will spend the year in space, the other on the ground. Monitoring their health could let us tease apart the effects of space flight from genetics

Colossal icebergs careening along the Antarctic coastline can shut down the deep, cold currents that help drive ocean circulation.

Electricity firm Commonwealth Edison, based in Illinois, become the first in the US to get permission to start sending drones to inspect damaged power lines

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new family of methods to significantly increase the speed of time-resolved numerical simulations in computational grand challenge problems. Such prob...

The oddly calm tornado season owes a debt to the weather patterns responsible for the East's cold, snowy spring and the West's warm, dry drought.

Here are the best fitness trackers, GPS watches and smartwatches for swimmers. We tested 16 waterproof wearables in a variety of conditions.

New research shows bacteria can use tiny magnetic particles to effectively create a 'natural battery.' According to work published in journal Science on 27 March, the bacteria can load electrons onto and discharge electr...

A simple way to start a fire using the physics of electricity Let's suppose you're out camping. It's damp and cold and you need to start a fire in a hurry. But alas the matches are wet and impossible to light!Here's a qu...

The Suunto Ambit3 has advanced swim features beyond most GPS watches, but its app is only compatible with iOS devices and wireless pairing options are limited.

The Swimovate PoolMate Live has a bright display that can be read underwater, but it suffers from a bulky design and doesn't sync wirelessly.

Taking our understanding of quantum matter to new levels, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are exposing high-temperature superconductors to very high magnetic fields, changing the temperature at which the mat...

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new family of methods to significantly increase the speed of time-resolved numerical simulations in computational grand challenge problems. Such prob...

How can the same flu virus be a mild infection in some people and a killer in others? The answer may lie in your genes

The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and ultimately our existence possible. Eighty years after the discovery...

A drone that mimics the way birds fold and flap their wings could improve the design of future unmanned autonomous vehicles, and could even help the machines withstand midair collisions.

Watch artificial ants move a large object by mimicking the cooperative behaviour of the real insects

The Ebola virus that is causing the current outbreak in West Africa is not mutating as quickly as earlier reports had suggested, a new study finds. This finding helps allay fears that the virus could change into a more i...

Two types of bacteria survive by charging and recharging magnetite crystals – essentially treating the mineral as a battery

Coastal ice shelves are thinning and the process is speeding up, making it easier for land ice to reach the sea and raise global sea levels

Hints that dark matter might interact with itself via a new force are dashed