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The hacking of Hacking Team, which sells surveillance tools to governments, shows there are almost no countries not involved in buying spy technology

American livestock were once diverse and unique, but no longer -- can a new IVF effort save some of the rarest remaining herds before they fade away?

People who can vividly imagine smells, such as freshly baked cookies or even wet paint, tend to weigh more than people whose olfactory imaginations are less sharp, new research finds.

People who get organ transplants are always at risk of rejecting the organ, even years later. But a new finding shows one way to thwart this rejection.

Abuse of prescription opioid painkillers is the strongest risk factor for heroin use -- people addicted to opioids are 40 times more likely to abuse heroin, according to a new report.

"It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a firefighter wearing a jetpack!" That could be something you find yourself saying as early as next year.

As well as rebuilding the health systems of those countries with Ebola, we need to improve healthcare in 28 others to prevent the next infectious outbreak

With the unemployment rate falling to 5.3 percent, the lowest in seven years, policy makers are heaving a sigh of relief. Indeed, with the technology boom in progress, there is...

Scientists are peeling back layers of paint to get to the root of an enduring plague that is threatening century-old art by the likes of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse.

Any clock keeps time, but space-time is much harder to pin down.

It’s everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is. Looking up at the night sky reveals a small piece of the cosmos—patches of stars speckled across a dark, black void. ...

Joblessness has been rebranded as a mental health problem to stigmatise and punish benefit claimants, say Lynne Friedli and Robert Stearn (full text available to subscribers)

Quarks and antiquarks are the teeny, tiny building blocks with which all matter is built, binding together to form protons and neutrons in a process explained by quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

Dark objects affecting the radio signals from quasars and pulsars could be strangely dense blobs of plasma. But if so, how did they get there?

An international collaboration has succeeded in using synchrotron light to detect and record the complex 3-D magnetization in wound magnetic layers. This technique could be important in the development of devices that ar...

Presenting a new perturbative method to deal with the gravitational N-body problem in general relativity. A novel approach to construct global and local reference frames leads to explicit transformation rules for metric ...

A team at HZB has carried out the first detailed study of how magnetic and geometric ordering mutually influence one another in crystalline samples of spinel. To achieve this, the group synthesized a series of mixed crys...

Researchers have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing "invisibility cloaks." In a new study, electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have...

A single mathematical function explains how both a sheet of paper and a developing brain folds --

Researchers at Toshiba have demonstrated a new technology in which microwave magnetic fields are used to reverse magnetization directions by selecting layers in a multilayer magnetic medium. The developed magnetization r...

(Phys.org)--A combined team of researchers from Israel's Hebrew University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Germany's Universität Kassel has succeeded in demonstrating coherent control of bond-forming bet...

A starry vortex wins top prize in this year's Earth & Night Sky photo contest. Here's a look at the star-studded image along with other winners, including a lunar eclipse, dancing aurora and a psychedelic night sky above...