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A freak set of weather events led to tropical storm Etau dumping record amounts of rainfall, but climate change may have played a part too

Sending information with the help of light is the future. It requires 'light chips', made of a special glass. Scientists from the UT research institute MESA+ have now managed to equip these light chips - which were alrea...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia and Humboldt University of Berlin have completed testing that has effectively measured the spatial consistency of the speed of light with a precision ten times greater...

TV screens that roll up. Roofing tiles that double as solar panels. Sun-powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electro...

Atom-thin layers of carbon can be turned into superconductors -- extraordinary materials that conduct electricity without dissipating energy, physicists say.

A giant superchain of volcanoes in Australia may be the largest string of continental volcanoes on Earth, new research suggests.

Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.

In an attempt to unravel how matter and antimatter differ--and why we seem to have more of one than the other in our universe--scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have been studying the production and decay of partic...

Zebra finches who raised chicks with their mate of choice proved to be better parents than those that had an arranged partnership

The US ruling says pesticide use was approved on the basis of "flawed and limited" data, which some campaigners hope will turn the tide against neonicotinoids

The new leader of the Labour Party supports action on climate change, and has created a shadow minister for mental health - but he fails on some issues

We live in an age of disruption -- industries will be transformed. This post (part 2 of 3) is a quick look at three multibillion-dollar industries (consumer electronics, education, retail) that are...

We may never know exactly what drove millions of men and women in committed relationships to log on to AshleyMadison.com to find lovers, but most cheaters fall into two categories, science shows.

Researchers at the University of Groningen, Utrecht University, the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and the FOM Foundation have found that it is possible to make an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator. This wa...

Terahertz radiation could one day provide the backbone for wireless systems that can deliver data up to one hundred times faster than today's cellular or Wi-Fi networks. But there remain many technical challenges to be s...

Snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains, whose melt supplies a third of California's water reservoirs, has hit a 500-year low

Plasma arcs from the surface of the sun, guided back down by powerful magnetic field lines.

Telecommunication networks will soon reach the physical limits of current technology and in order to overcome the current bottleneck, they will have to exploit the quantum properties of light. Roberto Morandotti and his ...

Huge events this year, such as the El Niño and changes to ocean currents are set to alter our weather far into the future, making 2015 pivotal for our climate

One of the first things taught in school science classes is that there are three states of matter - solids, liquids and gases. Bizarrely, however, at high pressures and temperatures there is a critical point above which ...

Maybe you've seen a double rainbow, but what about a double meteor strike?

A new study adds another health benefit to the Mediterranean diet's long list.