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Hundreds of graffiti messages dating to 1,500 years ago reveal gladiator combat, chariot racing , religious fighting and sex. Here are photos of the ancient graffiti found engraved onto ancient city walls.

Stretchy batteries inspired by origami could power smartwatches and other wearable electronics, researchers say.

Young people who use marijuana are increasingly turning to "dabbing," a new paper suggests.

The British Nobel Prize-winner has complained that he's been treated unfairly, but it is the women he insulted that deserve sympathy and support --

Giant dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics for tens of millions of years because wild climate swings there were too much for them to handle, researchers say. The finding could shed light on troubles that climate change...

Elon Musk's company has announced a new competition to build pods for the futuristic Hyperloop transit system.

Winter clouds hang low over the coast of Peru in a new bird's-eye image from NASA;s Terra satellite.

The matter that makes up distant planets and even-more-distant stars exists under extreme pressure and temperature conditions. This matter includes members of a family of seven elements called the noble gases, some of wh...

A nationwide study finds a clear association between each state's emissions track record and the environmental voting record of its senators and representatives

A European probe that made a bouncy landing on a comet last year and then slipped into an silent hibernation is alive again and phoning home. The Philae comet lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko beamed its "alive" ...

At the 2015 World Science Festival, four prominent astrophysicists discussed one of the most troubling (and embarrassing) puzzles in modern physics, and whether a theory of multiple universes can hope to solve it.

The effort to secure a stable, domestic source of a critical medical isotope reached an important milestone this month as the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory demonstrated the production, sep...

An explicit portrait of a god of fertility shows signs of a disease that would have rendered him infertile.

Energy firm Cuadrilla has received backing for exploratory fracking for shale gas in Little Plumpton, with a final council decision expected next week

Energy firm Cuadrilla has received backing for exploratory fracking for shale gas in Little Plumpton, with a final council decision expected next week

Physicists have chilled molecules to just a smidgen above absolute zero—colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang --

Why is Silicon Valley better at innovating than most of the world? Why are the number of successful startups so high there? Where is the next Mecca of tech-startup success going to...

The wonder material graphene can now add "making light" to the long list of its abilities. Researchers have developed a light-emitting graphene transistor that works in the same way as the filament in a light bulb.

For generations, Bedouin nomads living in the Egyptian coastal resort Abu Dabbab by the Red Sea have heard noises like the rumbling of a distant quarry blast or cannon shot accompanying small quakes in the area. And now ...

Wild animals have been spotted around the city of Tbilisi in Georgia after severe flooding killed 12 people and damaged the local zoo

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers at Beihang University in China has created a very tiny pump that is able to lift a drop of water without the use of any power source and move it to a higher location. In their paper publ...

Odds are you're a decent, upstanding person. You abide by the laws, pay taxes, and don't rock the boat. You value security but not at the expense of privacy. Like the majority of...