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A really weird, really tiny animal -- the microscopic tardigrade -- is the inspiration behind a new material that could improve the efficiency of things like LED lights to solar cells.

A giant slab of ice as big as California and Texas put together lurks just beneath the surface of Mars between its equator and north pole, researchers say. This ice may be the result of snowfall tens of millions of years...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun beaming home tens of gigabits of data gathered during its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto. The entire flyby data set should be on the ground in about 12 months.

The bacteria in your gut may affect your heart health, a new study finds.

Do you love surprises? What about surprises involving venomous spiders?

When it comes to sleep and heart health, it looks like there's a sweet spot.

Building a wall won't protect you from today's cyber-threats.

The New Horizons spacecraft has sent back fresh, stunning photos that it took of the distant icy world when it flew by on 14 July

What happens when you gather four thousand distinguished physicists in the nation's gambling capital for a conference? A bad week for the casino, but for a somewhat surprising reason.It was the American Physical Society'...

Biotechnology is moving blindingly fast: From $1,000 human genome sequencing to CRISPR gene editing, we're approaching an era when scientists can edit and rewrite the source code of life. Physicist...

A Pew survey tried to determine the level of scientific knowledge of the average American.

When it comes to science, some Americans are better informed than others, according to a new survey.

Hostile nest takeovers and sneaky egg laying are all part of the interspecies warfare that can result in chicks with confused identity

A countless science project from Science Buddies --

And we thought the Rolling Stones were old THOUSANDS gather on Salisbury Plain to celebrate the solstice at Stonehenge every summer, when the prehistoric standing stones align with the rising sun as they have done for ov...

Salad, again, for lunch MANY plant-eating species descend from meat-eating lineages. Indeed, adorable bamboo-munching giant pandas belong to the order Carnivora. However, it is rare to catch this evolutionary transition ...

UC Berkeley scientists locate a 'nonstructural protein' responsible for fluid loss and resulting shock from Dengue Fever ('break bone disease). 390 million people are infected with this virus each year.

(Phys.org)--The question of what a computer is capable of, and what it is not, has intrigued computer scientists since the 1930s, when Alonzo Church and Alan Turing began investigating the capabilities and limits of comp...

The fruits of one mind shaped civilization more than seems possible --

Sluggish production of nuclear fuel could make solar power the preferred choice for the agency’s outer-planets missions --

Did it use fire? Did it bury its dead? Could it speak? Many things about H. naledi set it apart from all other prehistoric humans

New results from two separate experiments could hint at the first sign of completely new physics in the world of the very small.