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(Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen) Believe it or not: X-ray works a lot better on rocks than on paper. This has been a problem for conservators trying to save historical books and letters. They frankly did n...

(Phys.org)--Scientists have discovered an anomaly in the properties of ice at very cold temperatures near 20 K, which they believe can be explained by the quantum tunneling of multiple protons simultaneously. The finding...

In 2012 CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovered the Higgs boson, the 'missing piece' in the jigsaw of particles predicted by the Standard Model.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new search for intelligent alien life, despite having strong fears that such creatures would destroy humanity.

Blasting tiny, waferlike sailing spacecraft with powerful lasers could slash interstellar flight times from thousands of years to mere decades, one researcher says.

Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of 20th century science, yet physicists have struggled to find a clear boundary between our everyday world and what Albert Einstein called the "spooky" features of the quan...

Subsea pools with high concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) have been found. Opal particles create the "distinctive color" according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Surprisingly, it's not just the food. If you've ever gotten unusually bloated on an airplane, you might have chalked it up to the stress of traveling, carbonated drinks, or the fact that you wouldn't really think twice a...

Think you'd never pick up a hitchhiker? Then you've probably never met hitchBOT.

NASA's former climate chief finds the world's current climate goal may not prevent catastrophic losses from rising seas, ocean temperatures and changes in weather. But the extreme nature of his projections has some scien...

A number of natives of the Amazon rainforest may partly descend from the Pacific, though researchers don't know when and how this group called Population Y made its way to the Amazon.

Iraq's fabled marshes are seeing some of the lowest water levels since Saddam Hussein drained them in the 1990s

Two-generation epigenetic trick can deal with devastating effects of warmer waters

Elderly women are more likely than elderly men to develop Alzheimer's disease, even when they are exposed to some of the same risk factors, two new studies find.

Do we have an adequate system for sorting through the ten thousand plus different educational technology materials and programs available for integration into our public school systems? No. In fact,...

Men may gain a few pounds after they become fathers, while their childless counterparts actually lose weight in early adulthood, according to a new study.

Believe it or not: X-ray works a lot better on rocks than on paper. This has been a problem for conservators trying to save historical books and letters from the ravages of time and fungi. They frankly did not know what ...

Explore the elementary particles that make up our universe. The Standard Model is a kind of periodic table of the elements for particle physics. But instead of listing the chemical elements, it lists the fundamental part...

Philae has stopped phoning home and its parents are worried. Meanwhile, communication is getting more complicated as the Rosetta orbiter moves on to the comet's south

The crewmembers of the Franklin Expedition, a doomed Arctic expedition to find a Northwest Passage through Canada, practiced end-stage cannibalism.

Opal-hued pools of carbon dioxide-rich water have been found in the caldera of the Santorini volcano, deep beneath the surface of the Aegean Sea. The opal color may come from the glassy microscopic bodies of silica-based...

Scientists have discovered a series of meandering, interconnected pools chockfull of carbon dioxide deep in the Aegean Sea. The iridescent pools are called Kallisti Limnes, which in Greek means "most beautiful lakes."