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Einstein was a genius, there's no debating that. He was a Nobel Prize-winner who changed our understanding of nature more than anyone since Newton. Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity, his pioneering work in ...

Swarms of drones buzz overhead, while robotic vehicles crawl across the landscape. Orbiting satellites snap high-resolution images of the scene far below. Not one human being can be seen in the pre-dawn glow spreading ac...

If you have ever watched television in anything but total darkness, used a computer while sitting underneath overhead lighting or near a window, or taken a photo outside on a sunny day with your smartphone, you have expe...

Would you want a spider web inside your ear? Probably not. But if you're able to put aside the creepy factor, new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York shows that fine fibers like spider silk ...

A liver grown in a lab by dissolving cells in a pig organ and then reinfusing it with new ones offers hope that we could create transplant organs on demand

Soils in cold regions may release far more carbon than expected as world warms, and that means our carbon budget is smaller than we thought it is

President Trump is right to declare the opioid crisis an emergency but his strategy is a mishmash of failed policies from last century, says Samantha Murphy

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 5, which means most people in the U.S. will turn their clocks back an hour -- but a new study finds that this extra bit of shut-eye may not be as beneficial as some may think.

Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business

After taking another look at data from the Kepler space telescope's original mission we have spotted 20 possible Earth-like worlds that could host life

An exquisitely preserved fossil of an ichthyosaur -- a dolphin-like reptile that lived during the dinosaur age -- found alongside the remains of hard-shelled ammonites is one of a kind: It's the only Jurassic ichthyosaur...

A coffee machine pod-like system can synthesise food from packaged pods of plant cells. The system could let us make our own jam from weird and exotic plants

Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain they run on already slurp as much energy as some countries, and as they go mainstream, something needs to be done

Traditional Halloween creatures -- vampires, werewolves and killer clowns -- may give you the shivers, but these mythic monsters from around the world are truly terrifying nightmare fuel.

In a significant breakthrough, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have devised a high-power radiation source in the terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This study...

Scientists have discovered gloomy octopuses living at high densities in Jervis Bay, Australia, where they are interacting with one another, signaling, mating and throwing one another out of their dens.

Have you ever wondered why milk is so white or why mayonnaise appears so thick and yet it can flow out of the bottle?

The bustling octopus community of "Octlantis" belies conventionally held notions of the cephalopods, once thought to be solitary and asocial.

Accelerator operators can perform amazing acrobatics with particle beams, most recently in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), CERN's second-largest accelerator. For the first time, they have successfully injected a beam...

Whether or not you believe neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero and his claims about head transplants, journalism has a democratic duty to hold public figures up to the light

A possible reference to a solar eclipse in the Bible could help pinpoint the reign of Ramesses the Great.

Your sense of smell has a strong bearing on your emotions. But what happens when you have trouble with your emotions?