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(Phys.org)--A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Croatia has developed an algorithm that is able to help pinpoint the first person who became ill when an epidemic occurred. In their paper publish...

A solar-powered plane able to fly in sunshine or darkness without using any fuel took off today (June 29) on a planned 120-hour flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Nagoya, Japan, to Kalaeola, Hawaii.

Women who have experienced a traumatic event may be at increased risk of heart disease even years later, a new study finds.

A walk in the woods really can clear your head, a new study finds.

A spiky, wormlike creature with 30 legs -- 18 clawed rear legs and 12 featherlike front legs that likely helped it filter food from the water -- once lived in the ancient oceans of the early Cambrian period, about 518 mi...

A technique previously used to levitate animals and fruit has been scaled down to work on cells, and could help diagnose cancer or test new drugs

A two-year, $3.8 million award has been received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for ener...

The court ruled that the EPA did not properly account for the costs of reducing toxic emissions.

Some of the most ferocious jaws in the animal kingdom belong to a creature that's rather small and quite misunderstood.

What causes mysterious "fireworks" in the sky spotted from planes? Video and computer modelling are yielding insights

Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire friction.

A bright young pulsar that seemed to be stable has slammed on its brakes. Understanding this shift in behaviour could help astronomers calibrate cosmic clocks

Back when the snow was melting, my significant other and I went for our usual weekly walk. He invited me to spend a few seconds jogging alongside him. The feeling of flying was a lot of fun, and I contemplated trying to ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a detailed model of the source of a puzzling limitation on fusion reactions. The findings, published this mon...

Building houses of brick is almost as old as human civilization itself, and over the millennia, we've perfected the art. The fastest bricklayers can mortar and place over 700 bricks...

Software that makes you seem funnier by suggesting amusing images to use during online chat could pave the way to more human-like AI

Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iPhone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface, which can be spoofed fairly easily with a printed image of the fingerprint. A newly de...

Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.

Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.

Gastronomic artists at New York's IDEAS CITY festival have been whipping up interest in the air we breathe

A horrific spinal injury caused by a bronze arrowhead didn't immediately kill an Iron Age warrior, who survived long enough for his bone to heal around the metal point, a new study of his burial in central Kazakhstan fin...

This year has a leap second, set to take place on Tuesday (June 30) at 7:59:60 p.m. EDT. The reason? Earth's rotation is slowing down, thanks to a kind of braking force caused by the gravitational tug of war between Eart...