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A few bold physicists—some backed by billionaires—are exploring faster, cheaper roads to the ultimate source of clean energy --

Cosmologists are evaluating the proof behind gravitational waves, journalists are investigating how to understand "truth" in the era of information overload, and roboticists are building crash-proof drones equipped with ...

Be prepared to "fall back" early Sunday morning, as people across the United States gain an hour of sleep with the end of daylight saving time.

A team of Russian researchers have rediscovered the site of the secret German World War II base "Schatzgrabber" ("Treasure Hunter") on the Arctic island of Alexandra Land, in the Barents Sea.

With "Doctor Strange," coming to theaters this Friday (Nov. 4), Marvel is taking its cinematic universe in a more mystical direction that may seem to diverge from the space travel, gods-as-aliens and DNA-based superpower...

It's a scary scenario: an asteroid headed for Earth, just four years away from slamming into our home planet. It may be too short a span to plan an asteroid-deflection mission, but it's long enough to present very differ...

(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) MIPT's researchers investigated the possibility of 'gluing' parallel nanotubes to each other, creating a material so durable that it could withstand even the harsh conditions ...

Isolates of a common poultry pathogen collected from animals in Indian bird markets were found to be mostly resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics. The study provides the first data on prevalence and isolation of H...

A new imaging technique stimulates particles to emit laser light and could create higher-resolution images of living tissues, say scientists.

Twelve weeks of aerobic exercise significantly boosted testosterone levels in overweight and obese men, according to researchers. Increased levels were highest among men who exercised vigorously, report investigators.