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Laws to open supervised injecting centres are due to be approved by the end of the month, with decriminalisation of drugs like cannabis also expected

Lacking an immune system means it's a struggle to recognise certain smells - if you're a mouse. And it could be to stop you sniffing out dangers

Sixty-six million years ago, a giant raptor with feathered arms chased prey around the ancient South Dakotan landscape, a new study finds.

Many websites that promote unscientific views about vaccinations use pseudoscience and misinformation to spread the idea that vaccines are dangerous, according to a new study.

A gaping crack the length of six football fields that opened up in a matter of one to two weeks in northern Wyoming is likely the product of a landslide, geologists said.

For close to a decade now, two of the hottest buzzwords in technology have been "Quantum Computing"--the promise of storing a information by manipulating the spin of a single electron, and the associated prospect of harn...

Archaeologists and historians have debated the fortress' location for a century.

Archaeologists in Jerusalem may have just solved one of the city's greatest geographical mysteries.

Raging forest fires are releasing carbon that has been buried in peat for thousands of years, inching the world closer to breaching warming targets

British biophysicist Alan Lloyd Hodgkin won the shiny gold medal in 1963 for discovering how the nerve cells of a giant squid generate an electrical pulse when stimulated --

On a serendipitous occasion, while attending a conference and listening to Rishi Raj, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, speak about the remarkable effect of moderate electrical ...

The stretching of the Earth's crust in a seismically transitional region likely caused the three quakes that struck Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday night. Such temblors are relatively uncommon in the state.

Last week the space agency held its first meeting about where to land humans on Mars, but such a mission still has decades of technological hurdles to overcome

What is the future of learning? That will depend on where you live and how old you are. In high-income countries for school-aged youth, it might come in the form...

New Caledonian crows usually only hang out with close relatives, except when they come across big meals requiring cutlery

With humans as the secret engine that powers Facebook's virtual assistant M, it's time to stop worrying about robot overlords in favour of their human underlings

Nothing is more frustrating that watching that circle spinning in the centre of your screen, while you wait for your computer to load a programme or access the data you need. Now a team from the Universities of Sheffield...

In recent years, advances in materials synthesis techniques have enabled scientists to produce increasingly complex functional materials with enhanced or novel macroscopic properties. For example, ultra-small core-shell ...

(Phys.org)--Calling it an "Ode to Bubbles," MIT researchers have produced bubbling in sync with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: Ode to Joy on a surface resembling a piano keyboard. The performance demonstrates the researcher...

Drawing inspiration from an insect's intricate eye, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision.

Nobel laureate David Wineland will discuss efforts to build the universe’s most accurate timekeeper --

Not only are we made of fundamental particles, we also produce them and are constantly bombarded by them throughout the day. Fourteen billion years ago, when the hot, dense speck that was our universe quickly expanded, a...