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In April 2015, a paper by Chinese scientists about their attempts to edit the DNA of a human embryo rocked the scientific world and set off a furious debate. Leading...

While people may have never heard of photonics before, they will surely have heard about the technology that relies on its existence, namely the internet, computers and smartphones.

An experiment to test whether dark matter signals change throughout the year has found contradicting results to a previous experiment, announced an international team of researchers at the TAUP2015 conference in Italy th...

Unseasonable heat has much of the U.S. in its grip. Global warming will likely make heat waves more intense.

Got rope? Then try this experiment: Cross both ends, left over right, then bring the left end under and out, as if tying a pair of shoelaces. If you repeat this sequence, you get what's called a "granny" knot. If, instea...

A new finding suggests that Stonehenge did not stand alone.

On Sept. 7th, 2015, European astronaut Andreas Mogensen - orbiting 240+ miles up and flying at 17,000+ mph - placed a peg in a hole on Earth; a demonstration of teleoperation using a force-feedback controlled machine sys...

In 2011 to 2012, more than 12 percent of U.S. adults had diabetes, and 38 percent had prediabetes, a new study finds.

The Earth, planets, stars, and galaxies form only the visible portion of the matter in the universe. Greater by far is the share accounted for by invisible "dark matter". Scientists have searched for the particles of dar...

The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees may have had shoulders that were similar to those of modern African apes, researchers say. The finding supports the notion that the human lineage shifted to a life away ...

A citizen science project is seeking volunteers to scour photos of Kenyan rocks in a bid to reconstruct past landscapes and environments

Encryption fix begins in preparation for arrival of futuristic computers --

Smart thermometers that allow users to see their temperature readings on a smartphone may also help researchers identify and predict infectious- disease outbreaks, some experts say.

If you have survived years of pushing, pulling, lifting, lowering and rotational forces assaulting your shoulders, thank your healthy articular cartilage. It is the smooth, white, lubricating connective tissue covering t...

Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This is particularly true in the aerospace industry, where small advantages i...

Diamonds are forever, except when they oxidize while cutting through iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium, or vanadium at high temperatures. Conversely, cubic boron nitride possesses superior chemical inertness but only about ...

An implant under the skin could provide an early warning of cancer spreading through the body before a person knows they are ill

Pregnant male seahorses tend to develop embryos similarly to the way mammals do, new research shows.

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...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking.

An elusive fish from Australia has finally been documented by science. Being tricky to catch earned it the rude nickname, which even caught on in Latin

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working at the University of Pittsburgh has created a computer model that simulates in some interesting ways, the process that occurs when anesthesia causes the human brain to essentiall...