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High purity single crystals of superconducting material (CeCoIn5) with the highest observed superconducting temperature for a cerium-based material enabled investigation of the relationship among magnetism, superconducti...

A wide swath of the central United States is at risk of thunderstorms and possible tornadoes over the next couple of days, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

Watch out. Men might be tricked into taking risky bets when they are shown images of men they view as more attractive than themselves

A close look at ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts is giving us an insight into how the group governs the territories it has conquered - and throwing up some surprises

People who do artistic or crafty activities may have a lower risk dementia, researchers say.

If you've ever wanted to see a giraffe being born, now's your chance. Katie, a giraffe at the Dallas Zoo, is due to give birth any day now, and you can watch it live online.

A cracking fireball that exploded over Russia last year appears to share an orbit with a huge asteroid discovered in October 2014.

The nonprofit American Rivers has deemed the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon the most endangered river in America in 2015.

Nobody really understands the quantum world. But a change of perspective might be all we need to make sense of it - and get to the theory of everything (full text available to subscribers)

New research shows how inkjet-printing technology can be used to mass-produce electronic circuits made of liquid-metal alloys for "soft robots" and flexible electronics.

An intricate knot of malformed blood vessels put this man's life at risk until a 27-hour-long operation gave him a brand new face

Light is an extremely useful tool for quantum communication, but it has one major disadvantage: it usually travels at the speed of light and cannot be kept in place. A team of scientists at the Vienna University of Techn...

Could genome sequencing newborns give valuable insight or do harm? That's the question US doctors are trying to answer in a pioneering trial starting this month

If you're looking to move to a happy place, you might want to check out the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida, area: The region reported the highest well-being out of the 100 most populous communities in the country...

It must be the Year of the Sponge here at The Artful Amoeba, because I can’t seem to write enough posts about sponges and their amazing micro-scale architecture. --

The pseudogap, a state characterized by a partial gap and loss of coherence in the electronic excitations, has been associated with many unusual physical phenomena in a variety of materials ranging from cold atoms to col...

Light is an extremely useful tool for quantum communication, but it has one major disadvantage: it usually travels at the speed of light and cannot be kept in place. A team of scientists at the Vienna University of Techn...

Solid signs of alien life will be spotted within 10 years, and definitive evidence will roll in within 20 to 30 years, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said Tuesday (April 7).

Awareness about drunken text messaging and tipsy Facebook posting could be an effective way to prevent excessive drinking on college campuses, a new study finds.

A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the earliest angiosperm fossil ever found.

The fossils of marine organisms and Antarctica's former forests are today supporting the extreme microbial community of a subglacial lake

"Geographic tongue" refers to the red patches that appear when filiform papillae on the tongue are lost --