Science News

We've long thought that galaxies grew fat by devouring gas from a mesh of dark matter called the cosmic web - now we've seen it in action

Californians may be used to hearing about the threat of potentially deadly earthquakes, but a new study finds that quake-triggered tsunamis pose a greater risk to Southern California than previously thought.

07 Sep 2015 - Back by popular demand, eight of the world's leading particle physics laboratories are joining together to host the Global Physics Photowalk on Sep 25-26, 2015. Over 200 participants will have the rare oppo...

Evidence of the earliest processing of oats by nomadic hunter-gatherers suggests that Europeans ate cereals thousands of years before farming took off

We live in an age of disruption -- and that's a good thing. Industries will be transformed. Major companies will fall. Old systems will collapse as entrepreneurs figure out how to...

Smartphones help Syrian refugees planning to make the journey to Europe. And when they arrive volunteer groups are using the internet to help them settle

Calculation with electron spins in a quantum computer assumes that the spin states last for a sufficient period of time. Physicists at the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute have now demonstrated tha...

Mosquito mesh cannot just prevent malaria, but can also be used to reduce the suffering caused by groin hernia. A surgical operation using mosquito mesh to repair the hernia can give millions of people a chance at a bett...

The recovery of waste heat in all kinds of processes poses one of the main challenges of our time to making established processes more energy-efficient and thus more environmentally friendly. The Spin Seebeck effect (SSE...

Until now, genome engineering and gene regulation required different variants of the Cas9 protein; but now, a new approach suggests that both tasks can be achieved using one type of Cas9, allowing scientists to increase ...

Researchers have discovered the assembly instructions for nearly 1,000 protein complexes shared by most kinds of animals, revealing their deep evolutionary relationships. Those instructions offer a powerful new tool for ...

To help refugees settle, doctors in Europe will need to treat both the mental and physical problems commonly experienced by people fleeing war zones

Researchers have, for the first time, levitated individual nanodiamonds in vacuum. The research team is led by Nick Vamivakas at the University of Rochester who thinks their work will make extremely sensitive instruments...

A rare, deadly form of skin cancer known as desmoplasmic melanoma (DM) may possess the highest burden of gene mutations of any cancer, suggesting that immunotherapy may be a promising approach for treatment, according to...

Researchers have created the Single Molecule Detection Machine for the analysis of ultra-small amounts of nucleic acid. The system can be used to identify biomarkers that are early indicators of a disease or allow foreca...

Two enzymes have been identified from the pathogenic Legionella bacteria that are very useful in chemically modifying proteins to be used in medical drugs, scientists report in a new article.

A highly effective drug that helps smokers to quit does not increase their risk of heart attack and depression as was previously thought, research suggests. Researchers who carried out the study say doctors can prescribe...

A 'gene signature' that could be used to predict the onset of diseases, such as Alzheimer's, years in advance has been developed by scientists. The study aimed to define a set of genes associated with 'healthy aging' in ...

For the first time, a study indicates that the use of local anesthetic may affect tooth cell growth and the development of children's teeth. The study comes at a time when more children than ever before are subjected to ...

With the help of a semiconductor quantum dot, physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new type of light source that emits single photons. For the first time, the researchers have managed to create a stream...

Space is cold, dark, and lonely. Deadly, too, if any one of a million things goes wrong on your spaceship. It's certainly no place for a computer chip to fail, which can happen due to the abundance of radiation bombardin...

A significant minority of teen e-cigarette users are vaping marijuana with the devices.