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An accidental breach by an EPA cleanup crew sent 3 million gallons of acidic, heavy-metal-laden water into Colorado's waterways. How do you clean up a river? The answer is twofold: treatment and dilution.

Precise information about the magnetic properties of nuclei is critical for studies of what's known as the 'weak force.' While people do not feel this force in the same way they feel electricity or gravity, its effects a...

The most powerful laser beam ever created has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan, where the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments (LFEX) has been boosted to produce a beam with a peak power of 2,000 trillion ...

Graphene, an atom-thick material with extraordinary properties, is a promising candidate for the next generation of dramatically faster, more energy-efficient electronics. However, scientists have struggled to fabricate ...

King Tutankhamun's tomb has the faint etchings that may point to a hidden doorway, which one researcher thinks holds the tomb of Nefertiti.

California neighborhoods that have more medical marijuana dispensaries may also have more hospitalizations related to marijuana abuse or addiction, a new study finds.

A very unusual octopus has scientists wondering just how well they really know the mysterious eight-armed creatures that inhabit the world's oceans.

ALMOST all intelligent creatures, be they parrots, sharks or human beings, are vertebrates. This is inconvenient for anyone trying to understand the nature of intelligence because it means, by and large, that he can stud...

For any computer, being able to manipulate information is essential, but for quantum computing, singling out one data location without influencing any of the surrounding locations is difficult. Now, a team of Penn State ...

Matter and antimatter appear to be perfect mirror images of each other, scientists have discovered with unprecedented levels of precision, foiling hope of solving the mystery as to why there is far matter than antimatter...

In a stringent test of a fundamental property of the standard model of particle physics, known as CPT symmetry, researchers from the RIKEN-led BASE collaboration at CERN have made the most precise measurements so far of ...

When your eyes move during sleep, are they "seeing" anything? Research suggests these movements could be looking at objects in our mind's eye

Young people with early signs of schizophrenia may benefit from taking fish oils, which were found to reduce the risk of psychosis developing by 75 per cent

A building in Amsterdam is the first with lights that communicate with workers' smartphones, giving them control over the heating and lighting in their area

A batch of ghostly, chargeless particles have been caught coming from inside Earth and from deep space

Alien worlds, like Earth, are shielded from cosmic rays by magnetic bubbles around their sun - trouble is, stars have a tendency to drop their guard

Astronauts aboard the ISS have grown and eaten romaine lettuce - and report that it tastes like arugula, also known as rocket, appropriately enough

Tracking tigers using roar power; avatars made with selfies; how lol has fallen out of favour (lol)

Octopuses share dinner over sex, drones watch dingos from above, world's smallest lemur found and more

A recent rise in wildfires in the Arctic is fuelling fears that vast amounts of carbon stored in permafrost will be released from the burnt areas

Fly me to the moon, sat-nav. Repurposing GPS satellites to direct lunar-bound spacecraft could make getting there cheaper and also improve navigation on Earth

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