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Most of the universe is dark, with dark matter and dark energy comprising more than 95 percent of its mass-energy. Yet we know little about dark matter and energy. To find answers, scientists run huge high-energy physics...

Sunlight is everywhere, but so far our efforts to harvest its energy have been restricted to solar farms and rooftop panels. A new analysis shows that transparent solar technologies that can be applied to windows, displa...

Macquarie University researchers have made a single tiny diamond shine brightly at room temperature, a behaviour known as superradiance.

Veteran sailors know that rogue waves can rise suddenly in mid-ocean to capsize even the largest vessels. Now it appears that a similar phenomenon called shear shock wave occurs in the concussed brain. It may help explai...

126 countries have signed up to cross-border protection measures to conserve whale sharks and many other endangered migratory species

Smallpox has been eradicated for decades, but other, related "poxviruses" are still around and continue to pose a risk to humans, experts say.

Disney Research has developed a flexible screen that uses water jets to let visually impaired people trace the arc of rockets and Catherine wheels as they explode

It may seem like a party trick, but invisible ink you can print could actually be useful in sending secret messages that are revealed by a special salt mixture

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported significant advances in the thermoelectric performance of organic semiconductors based on carbon nanotube thin films that...

For Dark Matter Day, scientist and Star Wars fan Dan McKinsey talks dark matter and the Force. Scientist Dan McKinsey of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley shares some thoughts on dark matter. Ask Symmetry - How is the Force l...

Electromagnetism has haunted the human imagination for thousands of years. From the ghostly Northern Lights of ancient aurora mythology to the evil electromagnetic forces in the popular TV show Twin Peaks, electromagneti...

It's not easy to bounce a single particle of light off a single atom that is less than a billionth of a metre wide. However, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore have...

Researchers have long pondered the origin of delicate criss-cross facetted patterns that are commonly found on the surfaces of broken material. Typical crack speeds in glass easily surpass a kilometer per second, and bro...

Eighty years after the theoretical prediction of the force required to overcome the van der Waals' bonding between layers in a crystal, engineering researchers at Tohoku University have measured it directly. They report ...

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a message for candy-lovers: "As it turns out, you really can overdose on candy -- or, more precisely, black licorice."

Suspected link to nearby volcano range found in world's largest mud volcano eruption.

Today, CERN Control Centre operators announced good news, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully met its production target for 2017, delivering more than 45 inverse femtobarns to the experiments.

Chiral magnetism attracts a great amount of attention since the observation of chiral skyrmion lattices in the reference system MnSi. These chiral skyrmions have dimensions significantly larger than the lattice constant,...

In an interview with Lisa Kay Solomon, chair of Transformational Practices at Singularity University, at SU's Global Summit in San Francisco, Robbie Baxter described the concept of the membership economy, a business mode...

Annica Black-Schaffer wants to understand unconventional superconductors. The fact that she recently received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant and is a former recipient of grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foun...

A portable holographic field microscope developed by UConn optical engineers could provide medical professionals with a fast and reliable new tool for the identification of diseased cells and other biological specimens.