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When a missile or meteor strikes Earth, the havoc above ground is obvious, but the details of what happens below ground are harder to see.

One rumoured and simple test to determine a flat battery from a good one is the dead battery bounce - drop them on the floor, and the flat ones bounce.

When heated to just above room temperature, the electrical conductivity of vanadium dioxide (VO2) abruptly increases by a factor of 10,000. Experiments coupled with high-performance computation reveal how the unusually l...

Increasing numbers of people are becoming sensitised to what should be seen as innocuous substances. Could our clean living be to blame? (full text available to subscribers)

Ancient evidence of dinosaur throw downs, cavernous sinkholes at the Dead sea and goldfish overtaking a lake are just a sample of our favorite images in Science this week.

Enjoy this week's stories! ROBOTICS: Human Laws Can't Control Killer Robots, New Report Says Kari Paul | Motherboard "​When a human being is killed by an autonomous machine, who takes the...

A simple mixture of two cheap and safe chemicals makes a strong adhesive that sticks to blood or mucus-covered tissues and is reusable like a Post-It note

The future is short for the world's corals, says the chief scientist of a global survey of reefs, but their demise must alert the world to the threat of warming

Some may be sticking-plaster solutions, but all the entries from the 2015 Designs of the Year show at least have sustainability in mind

(SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics) The latest issue of Neurophotonics celebrates advances enabled by Lawrence Cohen's trailblazing work in voltage-sensitive dye imaging which helped pave the way for a...