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"Wormholes" are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe, and have been popularised by the dissemination of theoretical physics and by works of science fiction like Stargate, Star Trek or, more...

Prof. Juan de Pablo's 20-year exploration of the unusual properties of glass began, oddly enough, with the microscopic animals known as water bears.

The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a "multiverse" made up of an infinite nu...

Researchers at the University of Kansas working with an international team at the Large Hadron Collider have produced quark-gluon plasma--a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe--with...

Plug your state's info into the CDC's tool to estimate how much chronic diseases are costing your state.

See how much your state spends on 6 health conditions.

French authorities confirmed today (Sept. 3) that the airplane part that washed up on an island in the Indian Ocean in July came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Game on: As a new football season hits, make it a point to get familiar with your own stats.

Not to worry, Denali is still North America's tallest peak.

At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in September, members of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and their colleagues will describe an experiment conducted over si...

Essential oils are popular, and they sure smell good. But do they work?

A leaf seems so simple, until you try to recreate its ability to store the sun's energy.

A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology for a wide range of applications, including remote sensing, self-driving car navigation and 3D biomedical imaging.

A 1,800-year-old sarcophagus that archaeologists are calling the rarest one ever discovered was unearthed last week during a building project -- but construction workers are now being accused of damaging, and then trying...

The black hole: the inner boundary of the known universe, the point of no return. This is the region in the vicinity of a gravitational singularity which, once entered, cannot be left.Or can it?Black holes are mysterious...

Construction workers unearthed a 2-ton limestone sarcophagus during a building project in Ashkelon, a city along Israel's Mediterranean coast.

Watch just about any science fiction movie and the allure of space is mesmerizing. It's open, seemingly infinite, and full of unknowns. It is the final frontier. But would you be willing...

NASA is teaming up with California-based company Arx Pax, which has developed a real-life hoverboard using a technology called Magnetic Field Architecture. The goas is to find a way to manipulate tiny satellites called c...

OCEAN fishermen are constantly on the lookout for new places to ply their trade, as they exhaust the old ones. Thus, in the 1970s, Europe's trawlermen turned to the deep seabed of the north-east Atlantic to replace the s...

THE flip side of evolution is extinction. The fossil record is replete with groups, once mighty, that are no more. But sometimes the Darwinian reaper misses a species or two within such a group and these, the last of the...

WHATEVER ails you, if you have to take two pills a day for it instead of one, you can blame metabolic clearance. Before they can get busy, drug molecules must run a biochemical gauntlet as the body's machinery tries to b...

The road to dusty death THE widespread use in recent years of nets, insecticides and new drugs has helped to bring malaria under a measure of control--but evolution is constantly pushing back by generating resistant stra...