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Monash researchers have identified a new concept - 'orphan memory' - which changes the current thinking around gravitational waves.

Whether it's the neighbor's barking dogs, pounding rain, the din of traffic, or the music of your own choosing, most of us are constantly surrounded by noise. Noise is energy, so that means most of us are constantly surr...

Tabby's star, the mysterious object that has exhibited a perplexing pattern of dimming and brightening, is at it again, and telescopes around the world are heeding the call to gather data on during the event.

A professional big-game hunter died after he was crushed by a female elephant.

Most of the Milky Way’s antimatter may come from the explosive collisions of white dwarf stars --

The first experiment to test how space travel could affect mammals' reproduction shows that pregnancy can smooth over DNA damage from cosmic radiation

The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was an eastern European, claims team that analysed fossils of a 7-million-year-old ape from Bulgaria and Greece

Metformin dramatically shifts the gut microbiome - and bacteria seem to play a key role in controlling blood sugar levels

An international team of physicists has monitored the scattering behavior of electrons in a non-conducting material in real-time. Their insights could be beneficial for radiotherapy.

The number of surgeries done to confirm a person's gender identity, also referred to as sex reassignment surgeries, has increased in recent years.

Technology has a funny habit: just when you think it can't get better, it does. Take 3D printing. The ability for a machine to spit out soft material in a precise pattern that almost simultaneously hardens into an actual...

Space weather typically refers to charged particles ejected by the sun that can interact with the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. However, a new study shows that humans also can change the near-Earth space environ...

Properties, sources and uses of the element americium.

Researchers have modified an experimental malaria vaccine and showed that it completely protected four of eight monkeys that received it against challenge with the virulent Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite. In thre...

Sleep loss increases the risk of obesity through a combination of effects on energy metabolism. This research will highlight how disrupted sleep patterns, a common feature of modern living, can predispose to weight gain,...

High levels of air pollution over time may get in the way of a good night's sleep, according to new research.

A new study describes a standardized assessment that ensures that students who graduate from UK medical schools have achieved a minimum standard of knowledge and skill related to prescribing medications.

Many people believe that having a glass of wine with dinner -- or moderately drinking any kind of alcohol -- will protect them from heart disease. But a hard look at the evidence finds little support for that. That's the...

Witch-finders of early modern Europe and modern Africa made themselves indispensable by showing people a threat of a growing crisis of threatening evil.

If you cut the leg off a salamander, it grows back. Humans, however, can't manage the trick. The reasons are far from simple, and to some extent are still a bit of a mystery.

The galaxy M87 emits a jet of plasma that looks like it's breaking the cosmic speed limit - here's how it manages the trick

As if by magic, seemingly independent pendulum clocks can come together to tick simultaneously and in synchrony. The phenomenon of "self-organized synchronization" frequently occurs in nature and engineering and is one o...