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With a week until the huge supermoon lunar eclipse, it's time to dust off your small telescopes and binoculars, track down an observatory event or webcast, or draft your invitations for a moon-cake party.

Some children with a rare genetic condition appear female at birth but later develop a penis and testes around the time puberty begins. But what causes this to happen?

Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, have pushed the boundaries of a well-established imaging techniq...

Researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics Group led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Jens Biegert, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) and th...

Sex does not increase heart attack survivors' risk of having another attack, except in rare cases, a new study finds.

A re-excavated archaeological site might hold the Tomb of the Maccabees, a burial site of Jewish rebels who reclaimed Judea from the Greeks in the second century B.C.

Archaeologists working at a site in Judea, in what is now southern Israel, say they may have found the location of the Tomb of the Maccabees, where leaders of a band of Jewish rebels from the second century B.C. were bur...

Every time you stroll outside you emit energy into the universe: Heat from the top of your head radiates into space as infrared light.

The discovery of fish bones in a hearth in Alaska suggests that salmon helped fuel the migration of Stone Age people from Asia into North America

Reverberated sound can make objects visible. The sonar is used in the shipping industry to acquire information about the seabed or shoals of fish, while gynaecologists use ultrasound images to study foetuses in the womb....

Scientists working with ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring, have made precise measurements of particle mass and electric charge that confirm the existenc...

When Jacob Aron helped judge an artificial intelligence contest, the entrants did not interview well. Better to judge face recognition or even poker skills

Fast, efficient, brain-like computers may be a step closer now that a Darwinian technique has coaxed a heap of nanoparticles to act as logic gates

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should avoid using words like "breakthrough" and "promising" to describe new drugs when making announcements aimed at the public, some researchers argue.

Solar heating could create currents in liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon - which could pose a challenge for proposed missions there

Light, sound, and now, heat--just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic metamaterials can hide an object from sound waves, a recently...

Protein flexibility is essential for enzymatic turnover, signalling regulation and protein-protein interactions. The motions enabling these functions vary in length from a few angstroms to many nanometres and include tra...

A smartphone app can work like a bionic pancreas, allowing people with diabetes to sleep safely all night without waking to check blood sugar levels

A study developed by researchers at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona (UB), published in the journal Physical Review Letters, describes the contribution of water to the three-dimensional structure of ...

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) created a synthetic material out of 1 billion tiny magnets. Astonishingly, it now appears that the magnetic properties of this so-called metamaterial change with the tempe...

Over the next 10 days, CERN's Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) will receive the Sun's rays. The Sun's course is visible from the window in the CAST experimental hall just twice a year, in March and September. The scientists ...

Metallic glasses are very strong and elastic materials that appear with the naked eye to be identical to stainless steel. But metallic glasses differ from ordinary metals in that they are amorphous, lacking an orderly, c...