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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in an experiment where they get an artificial atom to survive ten times longer than normal by positioning the atom in front of a mirror. The findings were r...

This woman wrote the world's first computer code 100 years before the computer was invented.

Calculating machines and notes that predict the future of computing are among the items on display at the new exhibit.

Two giant panda cubs were born today (Oct. 13) at the Toronto Zoo, becoming the first pandas ever born on Canadian soil.

Life is quirky. Although the molecules that make up all living things obey physical and chemical laws, they do so with a puzzling twist. How did the distinctive molecular features of life emerge, and what can they tell u...

People in Antarctica may drink more because of the cold, cooped-up conditions; a hypermasculine environment; boredom; and isolation.

People infected with the superbug methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may pass the bacteria to their pets, a new study suggests.

Many mysteries of nature are locked up in the world of the very small and the very fast. Chemical reactions and material phase transitions, for example, happen on the scale of atoms--which are about one tenth of one bill...

A team of theoretical high-energy physicists in the Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations has published a new high-precision calculation that could significantly advance the indirect search for physics beyond the Stan...

Over the past twenty years, as more and more technology has become incorporated into our daily lives, we've become increasingly reliant on the little lithium-ion miracles that keep our gadgets running while we're on the ...

To find life beyond Earth, astrobiologists like to say we need to "follow the water." Even the hardiest terrestrial microbes, like tardigrades, need a little liquid water now and then....

The public dialogue about science is perhaps the most vital and most fraught national conversation not taking place in our country, and the ramifications are profound.

Just as the moon's gravitational pull causes seas and lakes to rise and fall as tides on Earth, the Earth exerts tidal forces on the moon. Scientists have known this for a while, but now they've found that Earth's pull a...

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have used a noninvasive light-based imaging technology to literally see inside the living brain, providing a new tool to study how diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, and...

A simple new electron-beam multilayer deposition technique for creating intracavity contacts--an important component of gallium nitride-based (III-nitride) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs)--not only yield...

The research reactor TRIGA at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has reached a new milestone: after 50 years of consecutive operation, TRIGA Mainz achieved a total number of 20,000 pulses on October 1, 2015 - a wo...

A new way to infer body temperature from eggshells suggests that small dinosaurs were cooler than large ones, and both were warmer than modern reptiles

Regular coloring books are so 2014.

This sweet fall treat could be a breeding ground for dangerous bacteria.

When Sandia National Laboratories electronics engineer Chris Carlen got enthusiastic about flashlights containing high-power light-emitting devices (LEDs), he didn't expect his hobby to lead to the creation of a new, hig...

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have calculated that the meson f0(1710) could be a very special particle - the long-sought-after glueball, a particle composed of pure force.

An international team of physicists has created a quantum billiards game to gain new insights into the fundamental physics of exceptional points.