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(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) An international team of astronomers has discovered an extremely rare radio galaxy -- a giant, with an extent of 4 million light years caught in its dying phase at an incredible d...

Scientists are one step closer to developing life-like prosthetics: A research team from Stanford University has created artificial skin that allows brains cells to "feel."

The future has arrived in the Big Apple.

Amy from Hull, England asks:"Imagine a tube structure stretching a large distance (say a light year) encasing a row of ballbearings that are lined up inside the full length of the tube. If I push one more ballbearing in ...

Vitamin C may have a modest effect on how long colds last, but it's unlikely to ward off the wintertime sniffles completely, evidence suggests.

Many people with hay fever who take medicine to help with their symptoms say they don't feel that much better.

(Phys.org)--"Spooky action at a distance," Einstein's famous, dismissive characterization of quantum entanglement, has long been established as a physical phenomenon, and researchers are keen to develop practical applica...

Is he or she the one? You know... the one to introduce to my parents, the one to move in with, the one to start a family with, the one to marry? At some point in every dating relationship, you ask yourself some version o...

If food runs short, what will governments do?

President Obama said Friday that the pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States.

New printing systems create additions that can augment and repair things we already own

New experiments have confirmed a giant ocean of magma, or molten rock, might have existed in the lowermost part of Earth's mantle long ago. Remnants of this ocean still exist below our planet's surface, X-ray measurement...

The first exoplanets found were gas giants orbiting close to their stars - a study suggests they could be built from collisions of several smaller planets

A man who hasn't showered in 12 years says that a daily scrub wipes away beneficial bacteria that help regulate stink-producing microbes on the skin.

Satellites are shrinking, and so is the cost to build them and shoot them up into orbit. Cubesats, which weigh 1.33 kilograms or less, have become popular for researchers with...

New technology and new thinking are pushing the dark matter hunt to lower and lower masses. It's a seemingly paradoxical but important question in particle physics: Can dark matter be light? Light in this case refers to ...

The Dark Energy Survey is an ambitious project to figure out why the expansion of the universe is speeding up --

Elite Mayans are famous for their hieroglyphs and calendars, but commoners had it pretty good, too. That's what archaeologists found in a city frozen in time 1,400 years ago by a volcanic eruption.

Sunday, November 8 marks the 120th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in the history of science: an obscure German physics professor's discovery of the X-ray. His name was Wilhelm Roentgen, and in the six weeks t...

A small type of arachnid struggles to get from A to B - so it hitches a ride on board bats instead, using its large pincers to hold on

An international team led by Miguel M. Ugeda and Michael F. Crommie has demonstrated the coexistence of superconductivity and charge density wave order in a single layer of NbSe2, a model transition metal dichalcogenide ...

(University of Plymouth) Ocean acidification may well be helping invasive species of algae, jellyfish, crabs and shellfish to move to new areas of the planet with damaging consequences, according to the findings of a new...