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Sly Lee: Marine Scientist, Science Communicator, Entrepreneur Graduate Studies Program 2015 Alumni Honolulu, Hawaii and San Francisco, CA If Silicon Valley had a mind of its own, which it may one...

This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC - a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will increase the accelerator's discovery po...

The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has exploded into a riot of color thanks to a rare spring flower bloom.

How many navies does it take to shoot down one ballistic missile? Only nine.

Scientists have uncovered the fossils of an 11.6-million-year-old primate that lived in what is now a province of Barcelona, Spain, where it walked on tree branches and ate fruit meals. Here's a look at the newbie and th...

The fossil of a small primate with "goggle" eyes that strode atop tree branches, snagging snacks of fruit, suggests the last common ancestor of all apes might have been less like humans' closest living relatives than oft...

China has officially ended its policy of allowing families to have just one child, and will instead allow parents to have two children.

We know more about the universe than the inner workings the mind, but that's about to change.

If you're a fan of The Martian, then you're familiar with the alien landscape of Acidalia Planitia and Arabia Terra. But you may be wondering: Where did these strange names come from? On this week's podcast we set out to...

Dwarf galaxy observations dash astronomers' hopes that the signal at the centre of the Milky Way was caused by dark matter particles colliding

Jupiter's icy moon is a favourite of alien-hunters, thanks to its buried ocean. Now it seems the ocean could come to the surface - and it might be life-friendly

The University of Virginia's provost, Tom Katsouleas, once told me that less than one percent, by his estimates, of basic research is commercialized and that there may be as few as...

A team of researchers has mapped out a universal dynamic that explains the production and distribution of proteins in a cell, a process that varies in detail from protein to protein and cell to cell, but that always resu...

A teeny-tiny fossilized bird skeleton is helping researchers understand the explosive rate at which birds diversified after the dinosaur age, new research shows.

Since the first public movie theater opened in the U.S. in 1905, movies have evolved significantly--sound, color, computer effects, high definition. However, one thing hasn't changed. We still go to...

A new cave has been found at the site where Homo floresiensis hobbits were discovered. It could hold more bones and shed light on the hobbits' origins

"IF EVER you wanted to set your watch, now is the time." Leon Lobo, of Britain's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), stands before a rack of servers near Canary Wharf, London's eastern financial outpost. The rack holds a...

A tooth's best friend? TIME was when the preferred material for filling superficial dental cavities was gold. Often, it still is, although cheaper materials are frequently used instead. But, for the deepest sort of filli...

LIKE some people who might rather not admit it, wolves faced with a scarcity of potential sexual partners are not beneath lowering their standards. It was desperation of this sort, biologists reckon, that led dwindling w...

The decision about whether to take a gene test is at the heart of new play Plaques and Tangles - a dilemma that is becoming ever more common

This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN1 to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC - a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will increase the accelerator's discovery p...

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