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Material scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have found certain metal oxides increase capacity and improve cycling performance in lithium-ion batteries.

Comet P/2016 BA14 will come within 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) of the planet at about 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) Tuesday. Only two other comets have come closer to Earth throughout recorded history.

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Scientists identify a group of proteins as new and important players in the mechanism that causes pancreatic fibrosis. Pancreatic fibrosis -- or the formation of scar tissue in the pancreas -- is associated with chronic ...

While many women gamers can shrug off much of the name-calling and abuse they receive while playing online video games, sexual harassment sticks with them even when they're offline.

Scientists have provided an overview of the most promising compounds which can be used as medications for prostate cancer in a new scientific article.

For the first time, scientists have seen the shock wave emanating from an exploding star in visible light.

When chasing insects for their dinner, bats can perform aerial acrobatics that would shame even the steeliest test pilots. Inspired by how bats pull off such impressive maneuvers, engineers designed new kinds of wing sur...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft zoomed in on dwarf planet Ceres and found unexpected treasures hidden in its craters

Twitter users asked a perfectly reasonable question: What if the "Boaty McBoatface" naming aesthetic were applied to animals?

"Technology goes beyond mere tool making; it is a process of creating ever more powerful technology using the tools from the previous round of innovation." -Ray Kurzweil A decade ago, smartphones (as we know them by toda...

(Phys.org)--Global demand for data storage is constantly increasing, driven by new technologies such as Big Data and the Internet of Things, as well as personal and enterprise storage. The hard disk drives that currently...

The black holes that kicked off the first detection of gravitational waves seem to be the right size and frequency to be long-sought primordial black holes

A non-invasive device that promises the end of finger-prick glucose tests and injections could be a boon for millions of people with diabetes

Not everyone believes machines will outstrip human intelligence, but if they do they could find solutions to complex problems that we would otherwise miss

Billions of times stronger than the biggest hydrogen bomb, the shockwave from the collapse of red supergiant star KSN 2011d touched off a wave of nuclear fusion producing heavy elements like gold, silver and uranium.

Researchers trying to divine the bizarre nature of quantum particle behavior are getting some help from software that designs counterintuitive experiments --

Your car's bumper is probably made of a moldable thermoplastic polymer called ABS, shorthand for its acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene components. Light, strong and tough, it is also the stuff of ventilation pipes, pr...

A spot of sunshine is all it could take to get your washing done, thanks to pioneering nano research into self-cleaning textiles.

A healthy brain is critical to a person's cognitive abilities, but measuring brain health can be a complicated endeavor. A new study reports that healthy brain metabolism corresponds with fluid intelligence -- a measure ...

Researchers are challenging the convention that tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters need to be administered every 10 years. Their paper recommends current adult vaccination schedule should be revisited.

Exposure to a substitute chemical often used to replace bisphenol A in plastics can encourage the formation of fat cells, according to a new study.