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Hurricane Patricia is currently churning in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and weather forecasters are calling it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. How big can tropical cyclones get?

Oct. 21, 2015, was the day that Doc Brown and Marty McFly landed in the future in their DeLorean, with time travel made possible by a "flux capacitor."

The big asteroid 2015 TB145, which will cruise within 300,000 miles (480,000 kilometers) of Earth on Halloween (Oct. 31), may actually be a comet, NASA researchers say.

Off-the-shelf 3D printers could one day help create living organs to aid in repairing the human body, researchers say.

Theoretical physicists have proposed a scalable quantum computer architecture. The new model, developed by Wolfgang Lechner, Philipp Hauke and Peter Zoller, overcomes fundamental limitations of programmability in current...

Comet Lovejoy dazzled us in January on its closest approach to the sun. Now observations show it contains ethanol and sugars - as might Rosetta's comet

Zapping the brain with implanted electrodes may sound like a ridiculously dangerous treatment, but for many patients with Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation (DBS) is their only relief. The procedure...

Potentially catastrophic consequences are expected when record-breaking Patricia makes landfall later today

Have you heard that expression "better sleep with one eye open?" Crocs may take that advice to heart.

Previous research suggested life may have arisen on Earth 3.83 billion years ago. The new findings suggest life started 270 million years earlier, and only about 440 million years after Earth formed about 4.54 billion ye...

(Phys.org)--When it comes to fabricating complex quantum devices, one limitation is the number of wires available on the measurement systems that the quantum devices are built on. Typically, controlling just three or fou...

New data on the plant and human DNA found on the Shroud of Turin only raises more questions than it answers.

One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory - that a system can't change while you're watching it - has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method t...

Researchers have, for the first time, been able to track the movement of an electron in a molecule in real time and have demonstrated that these processes can be controlled. In the future, this will make it possible to d...

There is tremendous potential for new information technology based on light (photons). Photons (light particles) are very well suited for carrying information and quantum technology based on photons--called quantum photo...

The heartwarming images in parenting magazines often show examples of what parents should not do.

The mongoose is a long, furry creature with a legendary reputation as a ferocious snake fighter.

(University of South Carolina) A potential rival to the storied forensics tool luminol has emerged. Researchers at the University of South Carolina show that using a hand steamer in combination with thermal imaging, a vi...

(Stockholm University) Thousands of chemicals are used in clothes manufacturing. Researchers at Stockholm University have examined if there are chemicals in the clothes we buy as well. Several substances related to healt...

(Springer) Springer Theses, a book series comprising a selection of the very best PhD theses from around the world, celebrates five years and a total of 500 published books. The series gives young scientists experience i...

(University of Innsbruck) Theoretical physicists in Innsbruck have proposed a scalable quantum computer architecture. The new model, developed by Wolfgang Lechner, Philipp Hauke and Peter Zoller, overcomes fundamental li...

(American Institute of Physics) Researchers at the Université du Québec have recently conducted a survey of four Canadian cities to determine the economic feasibility of installing geothermal heating systems in homes i...