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A device developed to monitor US military pilots looks at biomarkers in breath to spot the first signs of hypoxia, allowing action to be taken earlier

A man who thought he saw a "stranger" in the bathroom mirror, when he was actually looking at his own reflection, turned out to have a rare neurological condition, a new case report finds.

There's pumpkin-flavored everything this time of year. But is pumpkin healthy?

Facing multiple nights of fitful sleep is worse for people's well-being than getting little sleep, new research suggests.

Australian scientists have designed a 3D silicon chip architecture based on single atom quantum bits, which is compatible with atomic-scale fabrication techniques - providing a blueprint to build a large-scale quantum co...

The figures in a new UN report show that limiting global warming to 2 °C is now nigh on impossible

Emerging technologies are shaking up how we grow food, distribute it, and even what we're eating. We are seemingly on the cusp of a food revolution and undoubtedly, technologies including artificial intelligence will pla...

NASA's Cassini probe made the deepest dive ever through the spray erupting from Saturn's icy moon, and took some spectacular photos in the process

Designing alloys to withstand extreme environments is a fundamental challenge for materials scientists. Energy from radiation can create imperfections in alloys, so researchers in an Energy Frontier Research Center led b...

They're the soil-builders that allow Africa's arid savannas to be lush grasslands. What do they do inside their huge mounds - and how does a collective mind allow them to do it?

A comparison of accidents by driverless cars and normal vehicles finds a higher rate for robot drivers, despite less demanding driving conditions

A promising new metal alloy system could lead to commercially viable magnetic refrigerants and environmentally friendly cooling technologies, according to a scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Wombats are small marsupials that look like a cross between a bear, a pig and a gopher.

Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher have made a precise tally of the jumbled cascade of particles produced when two proton beams are smashed together, which could help them discover new types of particles.

Hybrid electric vehicles, cell phones, digital cameras, and the Mars Curiosity rover are just a few of the many devices that use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Now a team of Penn State researchers has a simple mathe...

"For the very first time ever, humanity can manufacture things off from the face of the planet." -Andrew Rush, President Made In Space Something deep in human nature drives us...

To celebrate Halloween, Nature brings you the undead results that physicists can neither prove—nor lay to rest --

Whispering-Gallery-Mode (WGM) microcavities that confine light in a small volume with high quality (Q) factors and enhance interaction of light with matters inside the cavity have shown promising applications as an eleme...

Communist Party's decision to end the one-child policy won't prevent China having the world's most rapidly ageing population

Advanced LIGO has just begun its search for gravitational waves. For thousands of years, astronomy was the province of visible light, that narrow band of colors the human eye can see. In the 20th century, astronomers pus...

Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of carefully positioned lasers, deflectors and sensors surrounding a piece of...

This Halloween, meet CERN's very own WITCH - an experiment at ISOLDE, the laboratory's nuclear facility.