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To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide, whose unique electronic properties make them potential successors to silicon in future devices, you can no...

Condensed matter physics remains a field of study with many puzzles to solve. New studies have become possible due to advances in experimental quantum physics. In particular, ultracold atoms in optical lattices and an en...

Human ancestors that lived about 2 million years ago had hearing abilities similar to those of chimpanzees, but their ears had some slight differences that made their hearing more humanlike, a new study finds.

Researchers in Florence and Innsbruck have simulated a physical phenomenon in an atomic quantum gas that can also be observed at the edge of some condensed matter systems: chiral currents. The scientists have published t...

China announced the world's largest cap and trade program on Friday, in a step toward tackling climate change.

On September 22, 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that an endangered species listing is "not warranted" for the greater sage grouse. Do you think the bird should have been listed?

Tongue waggles resembling bowel movements could help some bats drink flower nectar, researchers say. The finding resolves a mystery over how groove-tongued bats access the sweet liquid.

Using high-speed cameras, researchers have captured the tongue of the Lonchophylla robusta as it slurps up nectar out of a tube. The grooves in its tongue transport the fluid up.

A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a rechargeable battery that could make storage of electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind safe and cost-effective for both residential ...

Bones from two human ancestors living between 1 and 3 million years ago show their hearing shifted towards frequencies useful for savannah survival and speech

Robots that can interpret human gaze offer the chance to extend control outside our bodies

The origin of life is still an unsolved riddle. How were life's building blocks first assembled?

This Sunday's supermoon eclipse doesn't mark the end of the world as we know it.

Mathematics that can describe coffeepots, forest fires and flu outbreaks may also underpin the brain's response to anesthesia, a new study suggests.The mathematical model of the brain, published in Physical Review Letter...

A maths puzzle that hit the headlines last year for generating a proof the size of Wikipedia has now been solved in just a few pages by a human

A FEW years ago, molecular biologists made a breakthrough. By borrowing an antiviral mechanism called CRISPR-Cas9 from bacteria, they created an easy way to tweak the genetic information in a cell's nucleus. This has imp...

Textile fibres and plastic have been found in the guts of fish caught off the coasts of California and Indonesia, raising concerns over food safety

Move over optogenetics, there's a new cool mind-bending tool in town. A group of scientists, led by Dr. Sreekanth Chalasani at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, discovered a new...

An exotic quark cluster reveals a new way particles can bind together to form matter --

VW has been cheating in emissions tests to make its diesel cars appear less polluting than they really are - we look at the options the company now faces

(Phys.org)--A trio of researchers, two with the University of California, the third with Sharif University of Technology, in Iran, has found that a common ring, such as is worn on the finger, spins differently on a table...

(Phys.org)--Cell migration is an intrinsic feature of multicellular organisms, enabling such processes as embryo development, wound healing, and immune responses. These activities require cells to move freely within tiss...