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It doesn't happen often that a young scientist makes a significant and unexpected discovery, but postdoctoral researcher Stephen Wu of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory just did exactly that. Wh...

Greetings, science fans! I know you missed us during our recent hiatus, but we're back to bring you the latest and most exciting stories from the world of physics! If you read our last post, you might have guessed that t...

Concentric circles of rocky hills and valleys in South Africa tell a story of a billion-year-old collapsed volcano in newly released photos from NASA.

When bacteria acquire antibiotic-resistance genes they become better at surviving in the body, challenging the dogma that resistance comes with a cost

The Peruvian government plans to make contact with the isolated Mashco Piro tribe, hoping to quell further violence in their remote region.

Have a big idea about how to use technology to tackle California's drought? Applications are now open for the 2015 Singularity University Impact Challenge. The top three ideas will win...

Hero worship is deeply engrained in the human psyche. From King Arthur to Luke Skywalker, we long for an unlikely leader to arise, pull sword from stone (or ignite light...

Most comets that brush past the sun end with a whimper, but if a big one plunges into the sun it could go out with a bang

One of the reasons for sending space-people to the Red World is to look for small-life there

A view of the deepest layer of Earth's crust under the Tibetan Plateau is possible thanks to satellite measurements of Earth's varying gravity. Results showed the layer is rucked into a series of bumps and troughs, like ...

Have you ever toked up? Sparked a spliff? Smoked weed? If you have, you're not alone -- 44 percent of all Americans surveyed in a new Gallup poll say they've tried marijuana.

Caitlyn Jenner's public transition from man to woman has raised awareness about hormone therapy for transgender people. What makes transgender youth identify with a gender they weren't assigned at birth isn't about havin...

It doesn't happen often that a young scientist makes a significant and unexpected discovery, but postdoctoral researcher Stephen Wu of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory just did exactly that. Wh...

Static electricity results from an imbalance between negative and positive charges in objects.

(University of Nebraska-Lincoln) As global population grew from about 500 million in 1560 to more than 7 billion, energy usage outpaced population growth. This in effect increased the world's carrying capacity and allowe...

Organic molecules allow producing printable electronics and solar cells with extraordinary properties. In spintronics, too, molecules open up the unexpected possibility of controlling the magnetism of materials and, thus...

An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to over 14 times their initial length and whose electrical conductivity i...

The mighty megafauna of the last ice age, including the wooly mammoths, short faced bears and cave lions, largely went extinct because of rapid climate-warming events, a new study finds.