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The European Union supports the development of a novel plasma particle accelerator with three million euros from the Horizon2020 program. The EU project EuPRAXIA (European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In A...

ITER, the world's largest tokamak now under construction in France, will have over 60 diagnostic systems installed to enable plasma control, optimize plasma performance, and support machine protection. Princeton Plasma P...

The results of the MicroBooNE experiment will be relevant for the forthcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Today the MicroBooNE collaboration announced that it has seen its first neutrinos in the experiment's ne...

A moderately inflated rubber balloon pricked with a needle bursts into two large fragments. However, if you inflate it until it bursts spontaneously, you get dozens of shreds.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Today's state-of-the-art optical microscopes produce voluminous three-dimensional data sets that are difficult to analyze. Now, two postdoctoral scholars from UC Santa Barbara's...

In the past six years, we have discovered some 1,030 planets circling distant stars, a number of which are in the "habitable zone" (i.e., not too cold, not too hot...able to...

Kids who live in a house with a dog before they turn 1 have a lower risk of asthma a few years later, a new study suggests.

An itsy-bitsy mollusk in Borneo is the new record holder for the world's smallest known snail, a new study finds.

A general mathematical theory that predicts how cracks spread through materials like glass and ice can also predict the direction in which rivers will grow, according to a new MIT study.

On Thursday (Oct. 29), the White House released two documents that lay out the nation's official plan for mitigating the negative impacts of solar flares and other types of "space weather."

Join us at Singularity University on Thursday, November 5 for an interactive panel and workshop on the Future of Learning.   In a study released in 2003, the Berkeley School...

Semantic Scholar makes light work of digesting the planet's scientific discoveries to make connections and unearth key information

Sixty-six million years ago, a tyrannosaur may have sunk its sharp and serrated teeth into the bones of another tyrannosaur, new research suggests.

An international team led by Gaute Hagen of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used America's most powerful supercomputer, Titan, to compute the neutron distribution and related observables of calci...

Sticky rice hails from southern China, but basmati is a hybrid of rice domesticated in the Himalayas and near Bangladesh

The fate of the world's heaviest parrot depends on a berry from an unreliable tree. Now conservationists have finally come up a replacement

Creepy robots are neither very lifelike nor clearly fake. An online panel rated robot faces to test whether this awkward "uncanny valley" really exists

In an article published and featured as an Editors' suggestion in Physical Review Letters last week (PRL 115, 187403 (2015)), researchers from the Nanomagnetism group at nanoGUNE in collaboration with a team from the Uni...

Helium usually reminds people of colorful gas balloons. However, helium is much more than the filling for these children's treats. It also helps quantum physicists to study the most exotic and hidden properties of matter...

A group of ancient "sea monsters" is caught up in a centuries-old case of mistaken identity, according to new research.

Scientists discovered a 1,300-year-old tomb holding the remains of the man who helped China's only female emperor rise to power. Epitaphs on the tomb tell of how the empress murdered her advisor and his family.

Photos reveal the epitaphs and treasures from an ancient tomb of the advisor to China's first and only female emperor.