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Night and day, as the moon orbits around earth and the earth around the sun, the gravitational forces of these celestial bodies pull on the earth. This pulling force is what causes the earth's sea levels to rise and fall...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers with California Institute of Technology and the Karlsruh Institute of Technology has improved the efficiency of thin film solar cells by mimicking the architecture of rose butterfly wing...

In the grand club of galaxies, the Milky Way is increasingly looking like an outlier. This is a looming challenge for cosmology, says Geraint Lewis

To fuse hydrogen atoms into helium, doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks must maintain the heat of the ultrahot plasma they control. But like boiling water, plasma has blobs, or bubbles, that percolate within the plas...

Aphids, midges and wasps are being added to the list of rapidly vanishing insects. It's another alarming sign of a sixth mass extinction, says Olive Heffernan

Thousands of miles of buried optical fibers crisscross California's San Francisco Bay Area delivering high-speed internet and HD video to homes and businesses.

Brown University researchers have demonstrated a way to bring a powerful form of spectroscopy--a technique used to study a wide variety of materials--into the nano-world.

As we posted Monday, it has certainly been a busy season for the scientists behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its European counterpart, Virgo. Yesterday's announcement of a neutron...

Through hard work, ingenuity and a little cooperation from nature, scientists on the BASE experiment vastly improved their measurement of a property of protons and antiprotons. Scientists at CERN are celebrating a recent...

If greenhouse gases are such a problem, can't we just suck the carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere? It's a perfectly reasonable question and an important area of technological research to pursue. The technique is r...

Bursts of brain activity called "sleep spindles" work to consolidate memories in dogs as they snooze, just like in humans.

Your dog may be trying to tell you something. From an inquisitive head tilt to "puppy dog eyes," the expressions of our canine companions may be their attempts to communicate, a new study finds.

Incoming! THAT hurricanes are likely to become more powerful as the climate warms is not a matter much debated among researchers. A warmer climate will increase sea-surface temperatures relative to those of the adjacent ...

There is an urban myth that dogs can smell human emotions, now it seems to be true: dogs can sense a person's emotional state just by sniffing a sample of their sweat

Almonds, the most popular nuts in the United States, are full of nutrients and may promote heart healthiness.

There's no evidence that people who think they've had an out-of-body experience have actually gone anywhere.

Scientists at Massey University have been involved in calculating the structure of oganesson, a relatively new element which has proved elusive to study.

A silicon solar cell harvests the energy of the sun as light travels down through light-absorbent silicon. To reduce weight and cost, solar cells are thin, and while silicon absorbs visible light well, it captures less t...

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all

Older adults who walked but didn't meet exercise guidelines of 2 hours a week boosted their life span in the new study.

Psychology makes us swift to blame those who experience sexual harassment, but the #MeToo movement could be making it easier to speak up, says Nichola Raihani

The VR experience will bring you face to face with one of the most famous wreck-diving sites in the world: the WWII SS Thistlegorm, which was sunk by German bombers in 1941 in the Red Sea.