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Unexpected shapes of mesoscale atoms--structures built of microdroplets encapsulated within microdroplets--have been created at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. The...

It's one of the true miracles of life, that moment when hundreds of little sperm make it all the way to an unfertilized egg and one breaches its walls. But what of all those other spermatozoa, the hundreds of millions of...

Oil pulling is the practice of swishing or holding oils from plants in the mouth for long periods of time to produce health benefits.

The unmanned X-37B spacecraft launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket today (May 20) at 10:45 a.m. EDT from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The booster also carried the Planetary Society's tiny ...

Matter and antimatter should have wiped each other out at the universe's birth. The upgraded Large Hadron Collider aims to find why matter alone survived (full text available to subscribers)

A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered by researchers at Temple University and the U...

The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say.

New simulation technology is not just revolutionising gaming, it could transform the way we model everything from disease to economic markets and ecosystems (full text available to subscribers)

Inn the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya, scientists have discovered stone tools that date back some 3.3 million years, long before modern humans were on the scene.

A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered by researchers at Temple University and the U...

When Leeuwenhoek first observed microbes, his findings were met with scepticism. Now images captured using his microscope show exactly what he could see

John Horgan lists 25 of his favorite science(y) books, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Ulysses --

Scientists from General Atomics and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a phenomenon that helps them to improve fusion plasmas, a finding that may quicken the ...

With its LightSail project, the Planetary Society aims to take the next step in its decades-long quest to transform spaceflight --

A bloom of bioluminescent plankton has wowed crowds along a river in Southern Tasmania this week, but it could be a warning sign of climate change

A fragmented femur bone hidden underwater for millions of years has become the first evidence that a dinosaur once roamed Washington, a new study finds.

The finding of an 80-million-year-old femur bone has inducted Washington state into the dinosaur club, a new study finds.

How do you check how many of the critically endangered fairy possums are still around? Talk to them, of course

A new way to measure the complexity of banks and multinational firms shows that it is not just their size that is important in a financial crisis

For the first time, bigger brains have been found to help animals survive. The discovery sheds light on how bigger human brains might have evolved

During college, women's risk of rape is highest during their freshman year, researchers say.

NSF-Funded University of Washington researchers developed ApneaApp, a smartphone app that wirelessly tracks changes in a person's breathing movements.