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A team of chemists has uncovered new ways in which frozen water responds to changes in temperature to produce novel formations. Its findings have implications for climate research as well as other processes that involve ...

In refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal, US president Donald Trump risks creating another North Korea - as another Republican president did before him

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Bedfordshire, in collaboration with multinational company ABB, have designed and tested a series of plasmonic nanoantenna arrays that could lead to the development of a ne...

Deep learning has been experiencing a true renaissance especially over the last decade, and it uses multi-layered artificial neural networks for automated analysis of data. Deep learning is one of the most exciting forms...

Many of us intuitively think about intelligence as an individual trait. As a society, we have a tendency to praise individual game-changers for accomplishments that would not be possible without their teams, often tens o...

We've taken the first pictures of neutron stars colliding 130 million light years away. The resulting gravitational waves may solve some big cosmic mysteries

The first detection of gravitational waves from the cataclysmic merger of two neutron stars, and the observation of visible light in the aftermath of that merger, finally answer a long-standing question in astrophysics: ...

For the first time ever, scientists have spotted both gravitational waves and light coming from the same cosmic event -- in this case, the merger of two superdense stellar corpses known as neutron stars.

Gravitational waves have been on our radar non-stop lately, from LIGO's fourth reported detection--enhanced by data from Italy's Virgo project--to this year's physics Nobel going to three of LIGO's cofounders. But here w...

There's a difference between editing genes in a person's somatic cells and germline cells. Editing somatic cells, which are differentiated (e.g., skin cells) and non-reproductive, impacts them alone. In contrast, editing...

THE timing was impeccable, to the point where one might wonder if it had been stage-managed. Less than two weeks after Sweden's Royal Academy of Science announced that it was awarding this year's Nobel physics prize "for...

Spacetime ripples from a stellar cataclysm in a distant galaxy help explain the cosmic origins of gold, and chart the course for a new age of “multimessenger” astronomy --

The next time you come across a knotted jumble of rope or wire or yarn, ponder this: The natural tendency for things to tangle may help explain the three-dimensional nature of the universe and how it formed.

Bookmakers use complex prediction models to set the odds of sporting outcomes in their favour - but a simple analysis of available odds can still give good returns

On Monday (Oct. 16), scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo collaborations, as well as researchers from a number of other institutions, will hold a news conference at The Nation...

If the sun spews "superflares" as often as other stars, one could take down power systems, damage the ozone layer and destroy satellites in the next century

In a rare case, a woman contracted a potentially deadly bacterial infection while on a 12-hour flight from Japan to Germany, according to a new report.

Very preliminary results suggest psilocybin could help depression.

Decades of environmental doom-mongering have fallen on deaf ears. Maybe a new environmental campaign with a message of hope is just what we need

The gravitational-wave research community seems to be having a remarkable string of good luck. Here's what the smashing finding means.

For avocado lovers who'd prefer a little less fat in their favorite fruit, a Spanish company could have the solution.