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It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video that immediately went v...

IN THE never-ending arms race between encryptors and eavesdroppers, many of those on the side that is trying to keep messages secret are betting on quantum mechanics, a description of how subatomic particles behave, to c...

The spiral arms of a galaxy called NGC 1365 contain 60 per cent more oxygen than the space between, the most extreme variation seen in a galaxy like this

Research has demonstrated the potential of a protein to treat or prevent metabolic diseases including obesity and diabetes.

Less than 2 decades after publication of the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, quality measurement has become routin...

A programme that protects some US immigrants from deportation has reduced anxiety disorders in their children. But Donald Trump may scrap the scheme next week

The world's most famous human echolocator Daniel Kish wants to teach more people who are blind how to navigate with mouthclicks like he does

Water on the planets nearest the TRAPPIST-1 star would be destroyed by UV radiation but it could survive on the cooler worlds in the habitable zone

An unexpected source for the brain's development has been discovered by researchers, a finding that offers new insights into the building of the nervous system.

Researchers want to prevent alpha-synuclein from accumulating in the brain. To do so, the team searched for drugs that turn down alpha-synuclein production. They then tested the drugs in mice and stem cells and studied i...

Schools in the US and beyond are right to consider a later start time for teenage students given growing evidence about adolescent body clocks, says Russell Foster

Medicinal therapy was found to be more than twice as effective as low-intensity brain stimulation in treating depression, according to a study.

A five-storey building has collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai, following torrential monsoon rains that have also caused widespread floods

Moving through sand or snow can be tricky for robots. A new one inspired by both bacteria and seeds can wiggle straight through without trouble

Ongoing advances in understanding the functional connections within the brain are producing exciting insights into how the brain circuits function together to support human behavior -- and may lead to new discoveries in ...

Drugs developed to treat heart and blood vessel problems could be used in combination with chemotherapy to treat an aggressive form of adult leukemia, new research reveals.

After spending nearly 18 years in the Field Museum's great hall in Chicago, Sue -- the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered -- will move to an exhibit upstairs, making room for the world's largest ...

Estrogen synthesis, a process naturally occurring in the brains of zebra finches, may also fight off neuroinflammation caused by infection that occurs elsewhere in the body, new research indicates.

It began two years ago when MegaBots co-founders Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti donned American flags as capes and challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel in a YouTube video that immediately went v...

Set spasers to "kill" IT IS more than 50 years since "Fantastic Voyage" hit the silver screen. The film's premise, shrinking a submarine and her crew of doctors to the point where they can travel through a patient's bloo...

Plesiosaurs roamed Earth's oceans for nearly 150m years, until their extinction 66m years ago. They were propelled by four equal-sized flippers, unlike any animal alive today. A question that has long bothered palaeontol...

ON AUGUST 27th the results of a trial of an anti-inflammatory medicine called canakinumab were released at a meeting, in Barcelona, of the European Society of Cardiology. Press reports were gushing, telling of a fabulous...