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The two most invasive termite species in the world are shacking up, producing a potentially powerful new termite hybrid in south Florida, a new study finds. The "super" pest can reproduce more quickly than either parent ...

A potion made from a medieval medical recipe killed MRSA bacteria in the lab, raising hopes it could lead to new treatments for modern-day skin infections

(Imperial College London) Scientists have developed tiny 'nanoneedles' that have successfully prompted parts of the body to generate new blood vessels, in a trial in mice.

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist famous for his groundbreaking research in the face of pronounced physical disability, has applied to trademark his name.

Every tumour is unique - could armies of cancer-infested mice avatars help find the best drugs for each individual? (full text available to subscribers)

Originally published: Mar 25 2015 - 10:00am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Contributor(Inside Science) - "Agua" is water, "pan" is bread, "cerveza" is beer. Exams are done and bags packed for spring...

Plants living in arid, mountainous and humid regions of the planet often rely on their leaves to obtain the moisture they need for survival by pulling mist out of the air. But how exactly they manage this feat has been a...

Children and teens from poorer families show differences in their brains compared with wealthier children, a new analysis of MRI scans reveals.

A team of scientists has a new explanation for the planet Mercury's dark, barely reflective surface. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers suggest that a steady dusting of carbon from passing comets ...

During the Bronze Age, Egyptians were making beer in what is today downtown Tel Aviv, new archaeological evidence suggests.

Later this year, all babies in the UK will begin receiving jabs against the country's most common form of meningitis

There are electrical signals in the nervous system, the brain and throughout the human body and there are tiny magnetic fields associated with these signals that could be important for medical science. Researchers from t...

Researchers studying cancer and other invasive diseases rely on high-resolution imaging to see tumors and other activity deep within the body's tissues. Using a new high-speed, high-resolution imaging method, Lihong Wang...

There is an adage in economics known as 'the lump of labor fallacy'. It is that technological change is destroying jobs and generating rising unemployment. It rests on an image...

The dawn of DUNE -- Vote LUX, and give an underdog a chance -- LHC restart update -- 28 March 2015 - BBC News What is the point of the Large Hadron Collider? -- Quantum physics: 'Spooky action' demonstrated again proving...

(Phys.org)--A pair of Turkish space scientists with Bogazici University has proposed that researchers looking for the existence of Dyson spheres might be looking at the wrong objects. İbrahim Semiz and Salim Oğur have ...

Physicists at the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge have succeeded in linking two completely different quantum systems to one another. In doing so, they have taken an important step forward on the way to a quantum compu...

So secretive were efforts to create the first self-sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 that physicist Enrico Fermi and his Manhattan Project team quietly toiled beneath the stands of Stagg Field and communicated with each...

Wars and atoms have, as it were, a conjugated history.

(Phys.org)--For the first time, physicists have performed machine learning on a photonic quantum computer, demonstrating that quantum computers may be able to exponentially speed up the rate at which certain machine lear...

In many materials, macroscopic magnetic properties emerge when microscopically small magnets align in a fixed pattern throughout the whole solid. In a publication in Nature Communications, Johan Mentink, Karsten Balzer a...

              In an idle moment, while staring at a set of solar system data, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to display a set of planetary surfaces... --