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Any reaction? ROCKETS are spectacular examples of Isaac Newton's third law of motion: that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Throwing hot gas out of its engines at high speed (the action) thrusts a...

EPFL scientists have developed a new perovskite material with unique properties that can be used to build next-generation hard drives.

Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy known as retrieval practice, can protect memory against the negative effects of stress, report scientists.

The richest and poorest Americans differ in life expectancy by more than a decade. Glaring health inequalities across the socioeconomic spectrum are often attributed to access to medical care and differences in habits su...

Life at the bottom of the social ladder can be damaging to health - but now a study in rhesus monkeys shows that health can improve in tandem with social standing

Carbon-silicon compounds are used in products like drugs and semiconductors, but are not found in nature. Now scientists have taught a protein to make them

Carbon-silicon compounds are used in products like drugs and semiconductors, but are not found in nature. Now scientists have taught a protein to make them

The molasses flood toppled buildings and killed 21 people. Now physics is giving fresh clues as to how the sticky-sweet tsunami happened

Mount Kilimanjaro is home to centuries-old giant trees around 30 storeys tall - a finding that may help protect the area from logging

Quantum computers could bring about a quantum leap in processing power, with countless benefits for fields like data science and AI. But there's also a dark side: this extra power will make it simple to crack the encrypt...

On October 23rd Natasha Loder, our health-care correspondent, was named Science Commentator of the Year in the 2016 Comment Awards, an annual set of prizes for British journalists.

ONE thing that determines how quickly a researcher climbs the academic ladder is his publication record. The quality of this clearly matters--but so does its quantity. A long list of papers attached to a job application ...

TO LAND at Indira Gandhi Airport is to descend from clear skies to brown ones. Delhi's air is toxic. According to the World Health Organisation, India's capital has the most polluted atmosphere of all the world's big cit...

Completely without seeing it, people successfully navigated a virtual maze guided only by flashes of light in their brain caused by magnetic stimulation

On February 11, 2016, scientists announced that a daring experiment had finally confirmed Einstein's 1916 prediction of gravitational waves. That day Clara Moskowitz explained why the discovery... --

Deposition of a thin film catalyst of a predicted thickness on the surface of novel hydrogen storage microbeads helps release hydrogen.

A team of researchers is dedicated to keeping Canadians safer this winter by offering evidence-based ratings on footwear that may reduce the risk of slips and falls on ice. The team has developed the first test of its ki...

Heroes of Antarctic exploration have played a crucial role in research that suggests the area of sea ice around Antarctica has barely changed in size in 100 years. Ice observations recorded in the ships' logbooks of expl...

Black men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than other demographics, yet black men are consistently underrepresented in research studies, say researchers.

For the first time, scientists define how the cancer cell of origin controls invasive and metastatic properties of tumor cells.

Researchers have engineered cells with a 'built-in genetic circuit' that produces a molecule that inhibits the ability of tumors to survive and grow in their low oxygen environment. The genetic circuit produces the machi...

The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a silent success. It infects up to 95% of people in many regions of the world, and most of them never know it, due to the parasite's artful manipulation of its host's immune response. To...