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About half the normal matter in our universe had never been observed - until now. Two teams have finally seen it by combining millions of faint images into one

(University of Minnesota) Look at a hundred lakes in the United States' agricultural heartland and you'll likely see green lakes surrounded by green fields. Agricultural fertilizers that help crops grow also fuel growth ...

Researchers are a step closer to harnessing single pulses of light called solitons, using tiny ring-shaped microresonators, in findings that could aid efforts to develop advanced sensors, high-speed optical communication...

Tracking tiny variations in light reflected at the base of a wall can let you count people in a room and see where they are moving

When hit with an energetic particle of light, an electron orbiting the nucleus of an atom can break free in less than one quadrillionth of a second. Exactly what happens during this fraction of a second is difficult to c...

Richard Thaler has won this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the limits to human rationality and how to subtly influence people's behaviour

East Africa became colder and drier around 75,000 years ago, just when modern humans were apparently migrating out of Africa

Research findings often crumble under the microscope. Rows over the best way to fix this must end so we can stop trust in science crumbling too, says Robert Matthews

While there are millions of species on Earth, many of them have almost identical lifestyles, suggesting nature is more regular and rule-based than we thought

Kuwait has revoked the world's first law requiring everyone to submit samples of their DNA, after a court found it would violate personal liberty

Tiny explosions in the atmosphere may explain why the solar corona is a million degrees hotter than the sun's surface

Our education system is in need of reform. Most students are not taught to be self-motivated lifelong learners, nor do they come out of the school system with the skills, mindsets, and values required to survive a world ...

In 2015, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of light could be str...

Since 1962 when President John F. Kennedy declared, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade,"moon exploration has sparked the imagination. Today, Peter Diamandis says, moon exploration is as exciting as Alaska was in...

The savannahs early hominins occupied might have appeared thanks to a spate of wildfires 8 million years ago - which might in turn be linked to a nearby supernova

(Phys.org)--For the first time, scientists have determined the equation of state of an infinite chain of hydrogen atoms, which tells the amount of energy each hydrogen atom has, given the bond length between adjacent ato...

Laser cooling has been applied to paint, which could mitigate urban heat islands and solve the problem of how to cool objects in space

Many parents don't think their child is at risk for misusing opioids. But the numbers suggest otherwise, and it's critical to prevent opioid use at a young age.

A potential new drug might protect infants from whooping cough in their first few months of life, before they can be vaccinated, early research suggests.

Sci-fi and speculative fiction writers frequently imagine worlds rooted in social disintegration or even total collapse. What inspires these broken futures, and why are they so popular?

A Nobel prize brings big money and celebrity status for a few, but that's at odds with modern, collaborative science done for the greater good, says Geraint Lewis

Top quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton-proton collisions are predominantly produced in pairs, with one top quark and one top antiquark. In order to measure the production rates of top quark pairs, the ATLAS...