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In this race against time, a team of engineers and archivists are developing a solar-powered device to safeguard historical treasures in India.

Creative genius and neurotic thought patterns might have the same root cause, perhaps explaining why many artists are tortured souls.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. This also holds true for you. This post is a fun formula for fixing your problems while at the same time...

More U.S. adults, particularly those older than 45, are visiting the emergency room for bicycle-related injuries in recent years, according to a new study.

The mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley just got its old name back.

Like sailors putting a finger to the wind, migrating moths check the atmospheric conditions around them and adjust their headings accordingly, a new study finds. They do it by sensing turbulence, which helps them determi...

The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson. The ATLAS and CMS experiments on the Large Hadron Collider were designed to be partners in discovery. In 2012, both e...

The first evidence that ancient microbes colonised subsea mantle rock hints at how life might have emerged on Earth - and even other worlds

As astronomers get closer to finding potential signatures of life on faraway planets, a new mathematical description shows how to understand life's spread -- and to determine if it's jumping from star to star.

Fossils of 460-million-year-old eurypterids (sea scorpions) were uncovered underneath the flowing waters of the Upper Iowa River.

Light-absorbing films can be found in many everyday applications such as solar cells or sensors. They are used to convert light into electrical current or heat. The films literally trap the light. Although such absorber ...

Africa's raptor birds, especially vultures, are experiencing drastic declines as more are being hunted for meat and use in traditional cures

A new take on a musical physics classic

A visualization of recent physics terms affirms the enduring influence of Einstein’s 100-year-old masterpiece. Give it a try --

An 80-million-year-old lizard discovered in southern Brazil has provided a surprising clue about how these reptiles evolved, and where they once lived, according to a new study.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, smashes large nuclei together at close to the speed of...

Grey swan hurricanes -- storms with impacts more extreme than one would predict from history alone -- could ravage cities in Florida, Australia and the Persian Gulf, researchers say.

Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations present for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third ...

When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced earlier this month that he had melanoma, he also took the opportunity to slam another health issue: the Guinea worm.

The neutrino and its antimatter cousin, the antineutrino, are the tiniest subatomic particles known to science. These particles are byproducts of nuclear reactions within stars (including our sun), supernovae, black hole...

The small intestine is about as big around as a middle finger, but it is about 22 feet (6.7 meters) long.

Kidneys are bean-shaped organs located on both sides of the spine, behind the stomach. Their main purpose is to keep the composition of blood in the body balanced to maintain good health.