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Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have managed to store light that propagates in an optical fiber and to release it later on demand. By causing interaction between the traveling light and a few thous...

A new, high-tech cane for the blind is designed to recognize the faces of the person's friends and family members.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Sciences have successfully demonstrated pattern recognition using a magnonic holographic memory device, a de...

Smoking marijuana can lead to more than a euphoric high. Pot has been linked to long-lasting delusions, mouth swelling and several other surprising effects.

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information. These outsized atoms can be sustained for a long time in a quantum superposit...

Human labour and trauma pain is unique - that's because getting help when we hurt brings us a surprising advantage, argues neuroscientist Barbara Finlay (full text available to subscribers)

An apparent slowdown in sea level rise over the past decade that has baffled scientists is explained away as an error - sea levels are, in fact, rising faster

Eating a Mediterranean diet -- with lots of nuts and olive oil -- may help delay cognitive decline in older adults, a new study finds.

Mike Graham knows that fluid dynamics can reveal much about how the flow of blood helps and hinders individual blood cells as they go about their work.

There is a long history of poets taking Nature as their muse, from the call of the sea to the draw of the wild. But poems about physics phenomena are harder to find.Some might argue that physicists and poets have little ...

As every gadget in your home becomes a slave to your smart phone, the Internet of Things is here -- and the next ten years look even more promising.

What does space experimentation have in common with liquid cocktails? Both help in understanding what happens when multiple fluids are mixed together and subjected to temperature change - a phenomenon ubiquitous in natur...

Wine experts use some unusual words to describe the flavours of what they taste, and there's often more to it than flowery language. Discover the science behind the taste (full text available to subscribers)

… At least, that's the claim. Zain Rajani's mother had her eggs "rejuvenated" using mitochondria from her ovarian stem cells. New Scientist looks at the evidence

A million-strong petition is challenging the use of animals in experiments in Europe. Some are vital for the future of medicine, says Catherina Becker

(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) Dedicating more land to biofuel production can lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions, which take decades to make up for. A new study shows that geography is a k...

A woman in Sweden experienced a stroke while exercising that doctors suspect was caused by an unlisted ingredient in a workout supplement -- a compound similar to amphetamine.

In 2025, in accordance with Moore's Law, we'll see an acceleration in the rate of change as we move closer to a world of true abundance. Here are eight areas where we'll...

A striking map of the planet's average cloudiness has been generated with data from a NASA satellite that's been watching the clouds for more than a decade

Volcanoes are considered chaotic systems. They are difficult to model because the geophysical and chemical parameters in volcanic eruptions exhibit high levels of uncertainty. Now, Dmitri V. Alexandrov and colleagues fro...

A jet-powered vehicle that can travel the length of a football field in the blink of an eye will attempt to break the world two-wheeled land speed record later this year.

A type of galaxy thought to be all but extinct has turned up in our own backyard in the same abundance as in the early universe