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Our smartphones can do a lot--compute, pin down our location, sense motion and orientation, send and receive wireless signals, take photographs and video. What if you could also learn exactly what...

An international research team, led by Professor Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University, has investigated the electronic properties of the family of unconventional superconductors based on fullerenes which have the highes...

A medical checkup of people living in remote villages deep in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela has uncovered striking details about these villagers' microbiomes, the bacteria living on and in their bodies, a new study ...

The first three months of 2015 set new global heat records.

Science loses when traditional beliefs obstruct its way - but might lose more if it steamrollers over believers' objections, too

A new paper by a team of researchers led by Karel Matous, College of Engineering Associate Professor of Computational Mechanics in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, d...

The outbreak of flu that has sickened thousands of dogs in the Midwest is a new strain that likely came from Asia, experts say.

What makes scent such a powerful tool to "transport" you back in time?

The Yanomami people in the Venezuelan rainforest have the most diverse population of gut microbes ever seen, far more varied than Western guts. Does it matter?

Five years on from the worst oil spill in US history, turtle populations are struggling, dolphins are in ill health and whales have lost habitat

I'm always intrigued when I stumble across a cool physics phenomenon that most people would tend to pass by without a second thought. One of my favorite overlooked physics effects is scratch holograms. They can turn up j...

A busy highway in Uganda is a potential death trap, but chimps have learned to look before running across, and they even wait for those less able to cross

A conference on the fallibility of humans' propensity to categorise proves to be a pleasurable romp through unmapped territories

Images reveal the location and state of the USS Independence, an aircraft carrier involved in WW II and in atomic bomb testing.

The most far-seeing search ever performed for “Dyson spheres” and other artifacts of “astroengineering” comes up empty. Where is everybody? --

Discrimination against women in the race for key science jobs has vanished, says the latest research. New Scientist's Lisa Grossman begs to differ

Rare Earth elements, found in the f-block of the periodic table, have particular magnetic and optical properties that make them valuable commodities. This has been particularly true over the last thirty years as more tec...

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.

An underwater robot has created a detailed sonar image of the huge aircraft carrier, revealing it is slightly tilted though upright. The ship operated in the Pacific Ocean during WW II.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: April 17, 1915 World War I was an artillery war. In the opening days, the German army used a new variety of siege gun to blast holes in the... --

Rockfalls in France's "corridor of death" seem to follow warmer weather - and may become much more frequent as the climate warms

The first high-resolution images of a dwarf planet have captured the sun-lit north pole of Ceres