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The Optical Single Crystals Group at NIMS, in collaboration with Tamura Corporation and Koha Co., Ltd., successfully developed single-crystal phosphors that use a blue LD (laser diode) as an excitation light source, are ...

A tiny, foldable microscope can be made of paper, uses no power and can magnify objects up to 2,000 times its original size.

More than one-third of American adults are obese, and now, a new report shows that children and teens aren't far behind.

For women, some warning signs for stroke -- from hiccups to chest pain -- are not what you might suspect.

What's the best way to maintain U.S. national parks? Show up.

Like a giant jellyfish floating through the atmosphere, red sprites hover above thunderstorms in two new photographs snapped from space by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Strong winds and dry weather have fuelled fires in the US Pacific Northwest - but the weather may finally be turning in firefighters' favour

A man in the United Kingdom made headlines recently when he had surgery to give him a so-called "bionic penis," but experts say the man actually had a penile implant -- a device that is not uncommon.

Islamic State has released images of a 2000-year-old temple being blown up as international efforts are stepped up to protect Syria's remaining treasures

Flu subtly changes each year to stop us becoming fully immune. A normally hidden protein that stays the same in all flu viruses could make a universal vaccine

(Phys.org)--Research in spintronics (short for spin transport electronics - the study of the electron's intrinsic spin and associated magnetic moment in solid-state devices) continues to be focused on methods for exercis...

A research team at Linköping University, together with colleagues in Europe and the United States, has shown that at extremely high pressure even the innermost electrons in the atomic nuclei of the metal osmium begin to...

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create. Somewhere in the cosmos, a star is reaching the end of its life. Maybe it’s a massive star, collapsing under its own gravity. Or maybe it’s a dense ci...

A new pocket microscope made of paper can be folded into shape in 10 minutes and used to discover the hidden beauty of nature.

Zookeepers are playing a complicated game of "baby swap" with two new pink and fuzzy panda twins at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

The mechanisms of nuclear fission, especially the origin of asymmetric mass division in the low-excitation region of U and Pu, are still not clear. There are many conflicting arguments to explain the experimental data, m...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is home to two new twin panda cubs.

The Sumatran rhino is now considered extinct in the wild in the Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, according to a new study.

Researchers have long struggled to resolve what happens to information when it falls inside a black hole, but the famous physicist says he has a solution

A new app called Infltr taps into a smartphone's graphics processor to generate filters on the fly, allowing for the perfect shot in one step

The combination of ab-initio numerical experiments and theory shows that optical tunnelling of an electron from an atom can occur instantaneously.

Riboflavin is a B-complex vitamin that helps the body break down carbohydrates, proteins and fats to produce energy.