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The plasma experiments in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany, have been resumed after a 15-month conversion break. The extension has made the device ...

If you're in need of some charming news and a break from weather-related disaster coverage, this is your story. Today, in the American Physical Society's journal Physical Review Letters, a several-hundred-member team of ...

Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have taken a major leap forward to provide practical building blocks for a global quantum internet. The team, led by Associate Professor Matthew Sellars, have shown...

A 50-year-old lab technique is helping researchers better understand circular DNA, a lesser-known and poorly understood cousin of the linear version commonly associated with life's genetic blueprint. With the aid of a pr...

When freezing droplets impact a surface, they generally either stick to it or bounce away. Controlling this response is crucial to many applications, including 3-D printing, the spraying of some surface coatings, and the...

A Chinese policy is unintentionally causing people in northern China to live 3.1 years less than people in the south due to air pollution concentrations that are 46 percent higher. These findings imply that every additio...

An internal clock has been discovered within live human cells, a finding that creates new opportunities for understanding the building blocks of life and the onset of disease.

A method to help determine whether certain hard-to-study mutations in the human genome, called short tandem repeats or microsatellites, are likely to be involved in harmful conditions has been created by a team of resear...

Research has identified four pathogens that are responsible for the vast majority of diarrheal illnesses, leading the way for potential new treatments.

A team of scientists has revealed an internal clock within live human cells, a finding that creates new opportunities for understanding the building blocks of life and the onset of disease.

The Salt Fix is the latest book attempting to overturn well-established dietary advice, but it leaves a bad taste, says Anthony Warner

Neural activity associated with defensive responses in humans shifts between two brain regions depending on the proximity of a threat, suggests neuroimaging data from two independent samples of adults in the Netherlands....

The discovery of a mechanism by which normal brain cells regulate the expression of the NFIA gene, which is important for both normal brain development and brain tumor growth, might one day help improve therapies to trea...

As scientist probe nature ever more precisely with laser pulses, now aiming for the zeptosecond regime - a trillionth of a billionth of a second and the fastest scale of time measured - optimizing each parameter of those...

New York's notoriously unreliable subway system isn't all bad. Some lines follow statistical patterns seen in quantum systems, and run better for it

A couple of simple sensors placed inside a normal shoe and safety hat could alert you when bad posture is about to cause you a nasty injury

New York's notoriously unreliable subway system isn't all bad. Some lines follow statistical patterns seen in quantum systems, and run better for it

A non-penetrating sunscreen invented by its researchers has been licensed to a major aloe verde supplier. The sunscreen will appeal to consumers concerned about chemicals exposure.

The 2010 Massachusetts law restricting the use of off-road vehicles to those age 14 and older led to significant reductions in both emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions resulting from ORV injuries in ...

Scientists say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory-grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so-called 'epigenetic' changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps towar...

Non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma can help heal wounds, destroy cancer cells and kill harmful bacteria. The jets of plasma that doctors might use, however, often become turbulent with the direction and velocity...

A team of scientists has demonstrated a groundbreaking new method of gene synthesis -- a vital research tool with real-world applications in everything from growing transplantable organs to developing treatments for canc...