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In several small villages in the northwest of Spain, no one knew what made the water in their fountains turn a blood-like red.

Physicists at the University of Southampton have extended the theory of resonance fluorescence, a classic phenomenon in quantum optics, to 2D nanostructures that have novel light emission properties.

The genetics of an Incan child who was sacrificed about 500 years ago reveals details of the Native American expansion into the Americas.

People who get enough sleep are more likely to hit other heart health targets, too.

Physicists from the universities of Groningen and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Hong Kong have discovered that transistors made of ultrathin layers molybdeendisulfide (MoS2) are not only superconducting at low temperatu...

Compared to other emergency responders, firefighters are more at risk for heart disease.

Physicists from the universities of Groningen and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Hong Kong have discovered that transistors made of ultrathin layers molybdeendisulfide (MoS2) are not only superconducting at low temperatu...

A garnet crystal only one micrometre in diameter was instrumental in a University of Alberta team of physicists creating a route to "lab-on-a-chip" technology for magnetic resonance, a tool to simplify advanced magnetic ...

A new study delivers the first evidence that water in ancient dust grains collected at the heart of an infant Earth during its formative years.

Rather than arriving by meteorite, Earth's water seems to originate in the very dust that formed our planet - the same could be true of other worlds

Anywhere you look in the modern world, you'll see humans translating science fiction into science fact. We make predictions about a far off future, and then our curiosity drives us...

For at least the past 50 years, about half of all Earth's carbon dioxide emissions - human and natural - have been absorbed by the land and oceans. Scientists are trying to understand how much more CO2 this global carbon...

Scientists are studying the heat trapping behavior of CO2 released by land-clearing and accidental forest fires vs. factories in large urban centers. The data producing this simulation were taken during a 5-day period in...

Plant growth and decay on land and ocean over a 12-moth cycle can be seen in this 'average year' data set, compiled from many science imaging satellites

Einstein was wrong about at least one thing: There are, in fact, "spooky actions at a distance," as now proven by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Night-vision windshields on cars might one day be possible with advanced thermal imaging technology based on flexible, transparent, atomically thin sheets of carbon, researchers say.

Other fish leap out of the water, but only the needlefish is cunning enough to use this acrobatic feat to make itself invisible to the schools of fish it hunts

Learn about the physics of flight with this soaring science activity --

Scientists will use wonky orbit to test Einstein’s theories --

IF YOU want to build an atom bomb, land men on the Moon or work out the exact order of the 3 billion chemical "letters" in the DNA of the human genome, then Big Science, a large-scale project backed by a budget in the bi...

FEW vaccines have been so successful, so quickly, as MenAfriVac. It was introduced into Africa in 2010, to immunise people against meningitis A--a bacterial infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and the spinal...

WHEN a big earthquake strikes, it does not do equal harm everywhere. Places resting on unstable sediment will shift around a lot and are thus likely to be damaged badly. Those resting on bedrock are normally better off--...