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Physicists have wondered in recent years if they could control how atoms interact using light. Now they know that they can, by demonstrating games of quantum billiards with unusual new rules.

Historic levels of rain drenched South Carolina over the weekend, the result of a cool, wet front that swept down the coast.

An algorithm used to analyse earthquakes has been adapted to pick up the natural tremors in the brain. The technique could help spot tumours and dementia

Highly efficient robots on wheels could soon be hauling trash in a neighborhood near you.

Can people really get "addicted" to caffeine? Can people die from a caffeine overdose? Here are the facts about the world's most popular mood-altering drug.

Records obtained by Live Science show that if the papyrus is authentic, the story behind how it came to the U.S. would be astounding. The records also describe how, if the papyrus is fake, the forger may have crafted suc...

How small can a droplet shrink and remain a liquid?

This post is about achieving "significance" during exponential times. Significance is the feeling that your life (and your work) has had a meaningful and lasting impact. And today, during these exponential...

Many of you will remember them from your physics lessons at school: often represented as colourful clouds or balloons, electron orbitals provide information on the whereabouts of the electrons in atoms and molecules. Sci...

Plants that produce seeds that look and smell like antelope poop are able to trick unsuspecting dung beetles which feed on the droppings into dispersing and burying the seeds, a new study finds.

Largest survey yet of wildlife around the reactor shows that animals are flourishing despite lingering radiation from the 1986 explosion

From prison time to the intricacies of transporting the prize itself, this award can be rife with complications --

Volcanoes wreak havoc with rainfall so some rivers increase their flow after eruptions, while others dry up. Knowing this could help long-range climate forecasts

The dewy strands of a spiderweb can form a natural diffraction grating

The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature.

Proof that plants are sometimes smarter than animals is seen with seeds that mimic antelope droppings in looks and smell, ensuring their dispersal

The Bullet Cluster is one astronomical object that proves the existence of dark matter. The Nobel Prize committees don't seem to worry much about popular opinion (or at least my opinion), but if they did I'm pretty sure ...

A new Angry Birds-style game is set to help launch a new understanding of quantum science.

(Phys.org)--Before there were lasers, there were masers--devices that operate in the microwave regime and other wavelengths that are longer than those of visible light. But while the first masers were built back in the 1...

Many people will remember them from physics lessons at school: Often represented as colourful clouds or balloons, electron orbitals provide information on the whereabouts of the electrons in atoms and molecules. Scientis...

(Phys.org)--Many natural systems are described by dynamics of traveling wavefronts. Sharp traveling fronts are employed in countless phenomena, including fluid convection, chemical reactions, and cellular phenomena. Livi...

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for discoveries that led to new treatments for some of the most devastating parasitic diseases, the Nobel Foundation announced this morning (Oct. ...