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New 3D scanning tech will reveal details about the mummified body of a 5-year-old girl who died 2,000 years ago in Egypt.

(American University) In physics, the conundrum known as the 'few-body problem,' how three or more interacting particles behave, has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Equations that describe the physics of few-body sys...

When Lisa Tran set out to investigate patterns in liquid crystals, she didn't know what to expect. When she first looked through the microscope, she saw dancing iridescent spheres with fingerprint-like patterns etched in...

Physicists from Brown University have devised a new strategy for directly detecting dark matter, the elusive material thought to account for the majority of matter in the universe.

For the first time, researchers have used a single-step, laser-based method to produce small, precise hybrid microstructures of silver and flexible silicone. This innovative laser processing technology could one day enab...

In physics, the conundrum known as the "few-body problem," how three or more interacting particles behave, has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Equations that describe the physics of few-body systems are usually unsol...

One professor who studies the earth and one who studies space came together in the pursuit to detect and define dark matter. They are one step closer. Using 16 years of archival data from GPS satellites that that orbit t...

The media is full of stories about a teenage mental health crisis, but the reality is more complex. The real problem is we don't do enough to help those who need it

The malaria parasite appears to alter mosquitoes' feeding behaviour to steer the vector towards a human host

There's a widely-held belief that extraordinarily successful people--be they artists, writers, actors, athletes, or entrepreneurs--are gifted with an innate talent, and that their talent is what gets them to the top. But...

Environmental campaigners want the Colorado river to get the right to sue in US courts. It's not as crazy as it sounds, says Richard Schiffman

A newly-discovered species of mite sets up home on a spider's web and nibbles away at any insects the spider catches - and the spider doesn't seem to mind

The "I-Cut-You-Choose" method results in provably fair slices of cake. The same game theory approach can produce fairer voting districts in US states, too

In just minutes, an artificially intelligent machine cracked those jumbled text sequences called captchas that are used to distinguish human web users from spam-spreading robots. So much for that.

Advanced microphones using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are capable of supporting new user interactions with "smart" devices, like chatting with Apple's Siri, or Amazon's Alexa. The key to achieving the high sen...

You probably didn't notice the gravitational wave that propagated through the Earth in the early morning of Jan. 4, 2017, but thanks to a sophisticated use of vacuum technology, a pair of extremely sensitive laser interf...

No one knows why these octopuses were on dry land.

From 1 December, instead of the 2-yearly Pap smear - also known as a Pap test or smear test - Australian women will have a 5-yearly human papillomavirus (HPV) test instead

About 200 million years ago, a giant meat-eating dinosaur -- one so large it was about twice as long as a giraffe is tall -- left behind three-toed footprints as it trekked across the muddy ground, according to a new stu...

A certain molecule in mammal blood provokes extreme reactions in different species, driving bloodlust in wolves and triggering aversion in humans.

The results from the first trial of young blood as a treatment for Alzheimer's have been announced, but how the study was done is coming under criticism

Astronauts who spend prolonged time in space experience noticeable changes to their brain's structure, a new study finds.