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(Phys.org)--A combined team of researchers from France and Japan has created a decision-making device that is based on basic properties of quantum mechanics. In their paper published in Scientific Reports (and uploaded t...

In a 10-year study, people who ate a lot of produce and avoided processed meats had a lower risk of depression.

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working for Toshiba in Japan and the U.K. has found a way to prevent Trojan horse attacks on quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. They describe their ideas in a paper they have had pu...

A jellyfish-like creature is made of up tiny nectophores that each spurt out jets of water in order to steer and thrust the creature forward.

If human-caused climate change continues unabated our world could change dramatically. A new visualization was created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research that shows the ice loss if current temperature trends...

Researchers have built an ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that gets around this problem, by turning objects into perfect, flat mirrors.

Unwed parents were once more likely to get divorced than couples who got married before having kids. Not anymore, a new study shows.

Nearly 100 children in the United States were suspected of having Ebola last year, and they sometimes experienced delays in care because medical staff were concerned about being exposed to the disease.

This season's flu vaccine has arrived.

There's a 97 percent chance the planet is going to have its hottest year on record.

Lead actor Matt Damon describes how Ridley Scott's film - and Andy Weir's book - can perk students' curiosity, in this conversation with Space.com's @DavidSkyBrody at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, but don't exist in real life, or do they? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National La...

A team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.

Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the frozen seas like colliding molecules in a fluid or gas.

Scientists have found that great apes may be able to remember and anticipate memorable on-screen events.

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new material that combines both electrical and magnetic order at room temperature, using a design approach which may enable the development of low-energy compute...

The first evidence that chimpanzees and bonobos can recall recent events comes from experiments that tested their memory of short movie clips

The latest downloads from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show a hazy nitrogen atmosphere backlit by the setting sun - and a landscape bizarrely resembling Earth

A chimpanzee and a bonobo show off their memory skills when they are shown a video twice of aggressive behavior (24 hours apart).

A slight wobble in the orbit of Saturn's moon Enceladus can only be explained by a global ocean beneath its crust.

As Russia's most treasured space-age artefacts are unveiled at the Science Museum in London, Mick O'Hare relives the glory days of the race for space

Biologists have long been curious to know whether giraffes produce any substantial sounds. Audio recordings from three giraffe houses in European zoos suggest they do