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Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physics and the building blocks of matter at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven Nationa...

It's not every day my Twitter feed is full of people talking about flat-tops, squeezing and injections, but then Wednesday 3 June was not an average day for the Large Hadron Collider.

The MERS virus could be imported into the United States but is unlikely to spread very much, one expert says.

A small spacecraft launched last month has overcome technical difficulties to unfurl a sail designed to catch the solar wind

Electronics that can be used to monitor brain activity are getting more flexible.

I often consult for Fortune 500 companies who are looking for ways to innovate (quickly). Perhaps they've heard the stat that 40 percent of today's Fortune 500 companies will no longer...

As Ebola devastated West Africa, Ian Crozier flew in to help. Weeks later he too became infected. Dubbed the sickest man ever to survive Ebola, this is his story (full text available to subscribers)

One hundred species every day ... species extinctions may be masked by our focus on big vertebrates, instead of tiny invertebrates that make up most of biodiversity

Prehistoric Ireland snubbed its own gold for more exotic, mystical gold across the sea.

A survey about men and their cars reveal that 80 percent of men could remember the make and model of their first car but only 50 percent could remember their last physical exam.

Four things to know about how the Clean Power Plan will change how you get electricity.

People who carry the genetic components of creativity and may also have genetic links to some psychiatric disorders, according to a new study.

A special kind of nanoparticle can communicate electrically with neurons in mice, allowing us to talk directly to the brain in its own language

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have uncovered physical mechanisms allowing the manipulation of magnetic information with heat. These new phenomena rely on the transport of thermal energy, i...

Tips from physics, physiology, and maybe even music can help you improve your score. Originally published: Jun 5 2015 - 2:30pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Peter Gwynne, Contributor(Inside Science) - "Drive for show a...

Researchers from Lehigh University, Japan and Canada have advanced a step closer to the dream of all-optical data transmission by building and demonstrating what they call the "world's first fully functioning single crys...

A nuclear physicist and an archaeologist at the University of York have joined forces to produce a unique appraisal of the cultural significance of one of the world's most important locations for scientific inquiry.

A new way of rapidly identifying bacteria, which requires a slight modification to a simple microscope, may change the way doctors approach treatment for patients who develop potentially deadly infections and may also he...

People with two copies of a gene tied to PTSD and depression are also quicker to laugh and smile, suggesting the gene may make them more emotionally responsive overall.

At the DARPA Robotics Challenge last weekend, 23 of the world's most sophisticated robots struggled to get round a set course. See how they coped - or didn't

Getting a kidney transplant is a big deal. Getting a pancreas transplant is a big deal. But getting a kidney and pancreas transplant while simultaneously undergoing a scalp and skull transplant -- that was unheard of unt...

(Phys.org)--"A grin without a cat" is how Lewis Carroll describes the Cheshire Cat's mysterious way of disappearing while leaving its grin behind in his 1865 classic, Alice in Wonderland. The fanciful character raises a ...