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A teenager in Italy recently beat some incredible odds when he survived for 42 minutes underwater, according to news reports.

Microspheres in a fluid, spinning in opposite directions, create flow patterns that affect other particles. Computer simulations show the particles self-assembling into different structures at different concentrations: b...

A 500-year-old engraving may show Leonardo da Vinci playing a musical instrument called a lira da braccio. If verified, the engraving would represent just the third contemporary depiction of da Vinci still in existence.

If you work at a desk, you should try to stand up for a total of 2 hours during your work day, according to new advice.

When you bring home the wrong color of paint from the hardware store, it may not be your foggy memory at fault. A new study finds that while the human brain can distinguish between millions of colors, it has difficulty r...

Sailing and science enthusiasts took to the schooner Mystic Whaler over the weekend to learn what tall ship sailing, life in space and studying Antarctica have in common.

At the Beyond Today's Internet Summit, researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas showed a working prototype of a next generation communication system that uses 3D video and force feedback devices to virtually re...

People who are in life-threatening car accidents frequently show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological issues afterwards, research shows.

A team of researchers from Universite de Montreal, Polytechnique Montreal and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France is the first to succeed in preventing two-dimensional layers of black phosph...

Wispy, featherlike clouds off the coast of Chile appear to cover the Pacific Ocean in white fur, in a newly released satellite photo.

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A cheetah-inspired robot can now spot and jump over hurdles all while running autonomously at 5 miles per hour. Researchers at the MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab have been developing this four-legged robot, named MIT Cheeta...

Producing reliable fusion energy--the same process that powers the sun--has long been a holy grail of scientists here on Earth. It releases no greenhouse gases, can be fueled by elements found in seawater and produces no...

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(Phys.org)--For more than 100 years, scientists have debated the question: when light travels through a medium such as oil or water, does it pull or push on the medium? While most experiments have found that light exerts...

A bird with spotted, ribbonlike tail feathers once flew around the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, a new study finds.

About 115 million years ago, a teenage bird with spotted, ribbonlike tail feathers flew around the trees of the supercontinent Gondwana, until it perished and fossilized in what is now northeastern Brazil, a new study fi...

Experiments are about to restart at the Large Hadron Collider, and this time the search will focus on dark matter and supersymmetric particles

As it considers putting the reef on its World Heritage in Danger list, UNESCO has given the Australian government 18 months to devise and fund a protection plan

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Like the carbon dioxide in a fizzing glass of soda, most bubbles of gas in a liquid don't last long. But nanobubbles persist. These bubbles are thousands of times smaller than the tip of a pencil lead--so small they are ...

Researchers at Tohoku University and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan, have developed a novel ultra-compact heterogeneous wavelength tunable laser diode. The heterogeneo...