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A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, a group of University of Florida researchers has found.

Explore the fifth e-book in our Engineering Is... series, all about future space exploring robots.

The bacteria that cause plague infected people during the Bronze Age, about 3,000 years earlier than thought, a new study finds.

Just in time for Halloween, gore-resistant scientists are swinging frozen human cadaver arms like battering rams -- in the name of science, of course.

A new study of the species Alouatta caraya has revealed that the deeper the vocalization, the smaller the testicals. This also led to the conclusions that howler monkeys with low-pitch vocalization tended to live in sing...

"I sort of missed the science boat entirely," says Wylie Overstreet, one of the creators behind the new short film To Scale: The Solar System. "It was only a couple of years ago that I discovered science as a story...and...

Researchers from Brown University, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, have developed a new way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very high speeds. The technique provides a new approach to modul...

The UK must urge visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping not to hide air pollution research, so the problem of dirty air can be tackled, says Rachael Jolley

If you thought bees only cared about flowers, think again. Some of them also farm fungus to survive - meaning that fungicides could harm them

In species with the largest vocal organs, males have the smallest testicles, suggesting an evolutionary trade-off between winning mates and making sperm

When all else fails, neutrophil cells can fight infections by releasing nets of their own genetic material, studded with antimicrobial compounds

Ana Cecilia Benatuil: Architect, Urbanist, Entrepreneur Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate Venezuela and Miami, FL Born and raised in Venezuela, Ana Cecilia Benatuil grew up in close contact with the diverse...

Learn the physics behind the surprisingly powerful force of friction --

IN THE winter of 1968 three British physicists went to Moscow to examine a machine called a tokamak. This fusion reactor was a newly devised competitor to America's approach to fusion, known as the stellarator. The Russi...

IN 1874 Francis Galton, a British polymath, analysed a sample of English scientists and found the vast majority to be first-born sons. This led him to speculate that first-born children enjoyed a special level of attenti...

FOR six decades, research into fusion power has been ruled by giant national and international projects that have failed to turn a penny of revenue, let alone profit (see article). Not, you might think, promising territo...

Astronomers witness a white dwarf star ripping worlds to pieces in real-time --

The process of evaporation, one of the most widesp

Though most people in the U.S. see religion and science as frequently in conflict, most people view their personal beliefs as compatible with science, a new survey suggests.

Zhaoxuan Wu and William Curtin of the Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics Modeling (LAMMM) have solved the 40-year-old scientific riddle of the low ductility magnesium.

US company gains FDA approval for selling a test that gives information about your risk of passing on faulty genes, two years after its last test was banned

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers from Austria, Germany and the U.K. has succeeded in building a model that shows the process that occurs when a liquid moves from a smooth state to one of turbulence inside of a pipe. In ...