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An entirely new particle known as the pentaquark has finally been spotted at the LHC, over 50 years after it was theorized to exist.

Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. The collaboration has submitted a paper reporting these findings to the journal Physical...

A new Ebola vaccine is made from a respiratory virus, potentially paving the way for an inhaled Ebola vaccine.

The fundamental constants that govern the laws of nature are being determined with increasing accuracy, according to a review paper published this week in Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data.

Getting into a regular exercise routine can be difficult, but now researchers have discovered a trick that can make it easier.

The New Horizons spacecraft brushed past Pluto at 7:49 EDT today. We already have fantastic data but the best is yet to come

Physicists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have confirmed the existence of two rare pentaquark states. Their discovery, which has taken place at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switz...

An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to correlate two of the most precise measurements of Avogadro's num...

For the first time, the wavelike behaviour of a room-temperature polariton condensate has been demonstrated in the laboratory on a macroscopic length scale. This significant development in the understanding and manipulat...

Exotic subatomic particle confirmed at Large Hadron Collider after earlier false sightings --

Human hands may be more primitive than those of chimps, more closely resembling hands of the last common ancestor of humans and chimps. The findings suggest human-evolution scenarios that rely on a chimplike last common ...

Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. The collaboration has submitted a paper reporting these findings to the journal Physical...

A new measurement of Avogadro's number could pave the way for a measure of the kilogram based on fundamental constants of nature.

An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to correlate two of the most precise measurements of Avogadro's num...

When a sound wave hits an obstacle and is scattered, the signal may be lost or degraded. But what if you could guide the signal around that obstacle, as if the interfering barrier didn't even exist? Recently, researchers...

Warmer weather means a quarter of the planet faces longer wildfire seasons - bad news for the climate as burning plants release extra CO2 into the atmosphere

By recreating the physical forces that developing cells experience, stem cells have been coaxed into forming microscopic beating hearts

The California drought has led to some weird side effects, from a deluge of spiders and snakes to pipes being eaten by poop.

There are many ways to make a hole in the ground, but explosions create craters with a distinct pattern - as found by bursting balloons buried in a sand box

Live Science's parent company, Purch, just launched a shopping app called Purchx that will allow users to comparison shop for fitness gadgets, baby gear, skin care and various other health and tech products.

Researchers from the University of Bristol have revisited a well-known classroom demonstration where a lighter ball is dropped on top of a larger heavier ball and offer a model to explain the phenomenon.

New Horizons was 476,000 miles (766,000 kilometers) from the surface of the icy dwarf at 4pm EDT on July 13th, 2015. Closest approach will occur at 7:49am EDT on July 14th.