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Men who are sexually coercive tend to share certain traits.

Just a few minutes of microgravity is enough to change your brain. This suggests space tourists and long-haul astronauts may need to take precautions to think straight

Scientists from Stony Brook University have used a novel technique at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at Brookhaven National L...

At its most basic level, a random laser is precisely what its name implies; random. It's random in the spectrum of light it produces and in the way that light is emitted, making what could be an extremely versatile laser...

When faced with a rival, some female dark-eyed juncos now sing just like males to defend their mates and territories

Ten million years ago a bear similar to modern giant pandas lived in what is now Hungary, suggesting the earliest pandas really came from Europe, not China

When pistol shrimp snap their one huge claw shut, the resulting shock wave can stun their foes - now we have seen just how this weapon works

One of the weirdest comets we've seen formed from tiny pebbles that trace back to the start of our solar system - which may tell us more about how planets are made

More than 1,000 years ago, a woman living in the British Isles became horribly disfigured after catching leprosy from an unlikely source: a squirrel, according to a new study.

Nest-building wasps in Malaysia were recently captured "blowing bubbles," expelling tiny droplets of water that they absorbed from their damp nests.

Quantum physicists in Oriol Romero-Isart's research group in Innsbruck show in two current publications that, despite Earnshaw's theorem, nanomagnets can be stably levitated in an external static magnetic field owing to ...

Caltech engineers have improved a technique for taking three-dimensional (3-D) microscopic images of tissue, allowing them to see inside living creatures with greater precision than before.

ETH researchers succeeded in shortening the pulse duration of an X'ray laser to only 43 attoseconds. With a time resolution in the range of a few quintillionths of a second, they are now able for the first time to observ...

What do you give the geek who has everything? Perhaps one of these science- or tech-inspired gifts.

For the first time, scientists have reported in-situ diffraction experiments measuring deformation twinning at the lattice level during shock compression. The results were recently published in Nature by a team of resear...

Trump has declared the US opioid crisis a national public health emergency. He thinks telling young people that it's "really easy not to take them" will help

Viruses are tricky beasts. Some of these "submicroscopic" pathogens can "go to sleep" inside a person's body, essentially hiding from the immune system indefinitely, only to reactivate and cause illness later.

For doctors, trying to figure out whether a person has a parasitic infection is like solving a mystery with few clues or only vague ones.

The placebo effect not only works in medicine, it can also boost cognitive ability, unleashing creativity and driving original thought

People who frequently use marijuana are likely to have sex more often, a new study suggests.

Physicists have proposed a way to test quantum gravity that, in principle, could be performed by a laser-based, table-top experiment using currently available technology. Although a theory of quantum gravity would overco...

Using a model of black holes, scientists from the Ural Federal university (UrFU, Yekaterinburg) determined that a popular theory of gravity that seemed to work perfectly at the cosmological level (a subclass of Horndeski...