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The discovery of thousands of bones at a site near Cardiff suggests massive bring-your-own-pig festivals helped Britons deal with the collapse of Bronze Age

Adults who chow down on traditional Southern foods -- such as fried chicken, gravy-smothered liver, buttered rolls and sweet tea -- may be at an increased risk of acute heart disease, a new study finds.

Number crunching can be a powerful tool, but only if we all think carefully about the data behind the results.

Wind energy pricing is at an all-time low, according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The prices offered by wind projects to ...

An analysis of pregnant women has suggested that children's IQ would rise if mothers-to-be took iodine supplements, but others question the benefits

Beijing has seen explosive growth in recent years, with the physical size of the city quadrupling in just a decade, a new study reveals.

NASA needs your help to bolster current earthquake detection technologies, and they're offering $25,000 to the team that develops the best way to detect an oncoming quake.

The annual Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak this week on Wednesday (Aug. 12) and Thursday (Aug. 13), giving amateur skywatchers an evening show.

Some butterfly species could disappear from southern Britain in the next 35 years if climate change and habitat loss continue, according to new research.

The invisible chemicals around and within us can tell many complicated stories. By sensing them, security agents can uncover explosive threats. By monitoring them in our breath, doctors can diagnose serious illnesses. An...

How to learn is changing, and it's changing fast. In the past, we used to learn by doing -- we called them apprenticeships. Then the model shifted, and we learned...

A comprehensive understanding of complex nanostructures--like proteins and viruses--could lead to breakthroughs in some of the most challenging problems in biology and medicine. But because these objects are a thousand t...

When the transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Labs, few could have foreseen the future impact of the device. This fundamental development in science and engineering was critical to the invention of handheld radios, le...

The parasitic disease Leishmaniasis puzzles doctors as many people relapse after treatment - a stealth virus lurking inside the parasite might be to blame

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working on the Borexino Collaboration at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy is reporting that they have detected neutrinos emanating from the Earth's mantle. In their paper publishe...

This year marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of nuclear physics, when Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden's experiments at the University of Manchester led them to conclude that atoms consist of tiny,...

Plugging your electric car into its charger with your own two hands is so 2013.

Materials that locally amplify or absorb light allow surprising new kinds of light waves - this has now been shown by calculations at TU Wien (Vienna).

Accelerator technology pioneered at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is on its way to powering X-ray science in South Korea: On Aug. 6, the lab shipped one of its unique radio-frequency amp...

A zap of lightning can change the very structure of a rock, new research shows.

Australia's Adele Island appears tranquil from space, but this sandy spit is the site of efforts to eradicate an invasive rat population that devastates seabird populations.

It's an old joke that many fusion scientists have grown tired of hearing: Practical nuclear fusion power plants are just 30 years away--and always will be.