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The Eindhoven High Tech Campus, a 90-minute train ride south of Amsterdam, consists of two rows of nondescript mid-rise office buildings on either side of a wide, tree-lined road. In typical Dutch fashion, there's more p...

Multiple NASA satellites have captured images of the dramatic and long-awaited birth of one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, which broke off an Antarctic ice shelf this week.

On Monday night (July 10), NASA's Juno spacecraft zoomed just 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) above the Great Red Spot's cloud tops -- closer than any probe had gotten before. The images Juno took that night have now come...

The 'poorly-sleeping grandparent' hypothesis backed with new evidence from Tanzania's Hadza people, links our sleep patterns to having night sentinels

A nearly 6,000-year-old long barrow, or house of the dead, has been unearthed in the same region that houses Stonehenge.

This week we've rolled out our first major round of improvements to Singularity Hub since our ground-up redesign last December. If we did it right, you'll find that discovering the technological goodies you come here for...

Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular-scale imaging technique that could let scientists view never-before-seen dynamics of biological processes involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer...

(Phys.org)--When researchers deposit a drop of fluid containing thousands of free-swimming, genetically engineered E. coli onto an array of micromotors, within minutes the micromotors begin rotating. Some of the individu...

A new island in North Carolina popped up seemingly overnight.

(Phys.org)--A pair of researchers at Brown University has found that it is possible to induce a drop of fluid to emit smaller droplets in a way that resembles the planet Saturn with its rings. In their paper published in...

Although around 10 per cent of women have endometriosis, little is known about the condition. Now severe pain has been linked to increased infertility

Maternal obesity and child neurodevelopmental problems have both increased in the US and scientists have suggested a possible link. A new study has found that the heavier mothers were when they entered pregnancy, the hig...

Many women are turning to egg freezing to promote fertility, but what happens when it isn't an option because of special medical conditions? And, what option is there for women who want to preserve hormonal function, not...

Hundreds of ancient stone tombs, some made with towering, flattened rocks, have been discovered in Jebel Qurma, a desert region in Jordan that is so desolate that one early explorer called it a land of "dead fire."

What are the traits that identify a domestic cat as the best of its breed?

Meet a few of the cats that took home top prizes for the Cat Fanciers Association show season of 2016 and 2017.

New research at the U of A is helping physicists better understand optomechanical cooling, a process that is expected to find applications in quantum technology.

Nuclear astrophysicists successfully created the first low-energy particle accelerator beam deep underground in the United States, bringing them one step closer to understanding how the elements of our universe are built...

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a hands-on answer to a challenge linked to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. The researchers used laser light to link caesium atoms and a vibrating membrane. Th...

(Carnegie Institution for Science) The brain is the body's mission control center, sending messages to the other organs about how to respond to various external and internal stimuli. Located in the forebrain, the habenul...

(Vienna University of Technology) The earth's hot core, consisting mainly of iron, is responsible for the 'dynamo effect,' which creates a magnetic field. But with iron alone, this effect cannot be explained. A team of r...

(DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) A paper by graduate student Matthew Parsons describes the application of machine learning to avoiding plasma disruptions, which will be crucial to ensuring the longevity of futur...