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Researchers at the University of Sydney have applied quantum techniques to understanding the electrolysis of water, which is the application of an electric current to H2O to produce the constituent elements hydrogen and ...

Any aliens building around Tabby's star would have to be thinking very big.

(Queen Mary University of London) A Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) spin out company has received investment to commercialize a new material technology which would both drastically cut energy use and increase the ...

The animals were as good as humans at recognising mugshots of the same celebs from different angles, showing sophisticated brain processing of imagery

Nice primaries, dahling CHARLES DARWIN was fascinated by bird communication. In "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" he devoted equal space to both the sorts of sounds that emerge from birds' beaks and t...

MALCOLM X, an American political activist, described the media as the most powerful entity on Earth, "because they control the minds of the masses". Some journalists may find this proposition flattering, but though those...

Particle physicist Pauline Gagnon will discuss the importance of fundamental research to society during a live Webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time --

Burn injuries sustained during the day take an average of 11 days less to heal than night-time burns

SCIENCE is a mixture of the intellectual and the practical. And the practical requires tools. Until the invention of the telescope, astronomy had been stuck in a rut for millennia. Until the invention of the microscope, ...

Something almost magical happens when you put a tray full of sloshing, liquid water into a freezer and it comes out later as a rigid, solid crystal of ice. Chemists at the University of Utah have pulled back the curtain ...

Gene therapy has saved the life of a boy with a rare skin-peeling disease. The boy received grafts of sheets of genetically-altered skin grown in the lab

Calls to ban killer robots ignore the fact that human soldiers can make lethal mistakes. If driverless cars will save lives, perhaps armed machines can as well

The weirdest supernova ever seen is a zombie star that keeps collapsing and coming back to life. It's so strange, it may be a whole new kind of celestial object

With pariah state Syria now backing the UN pact to curb global warming, the US stands against the other 195 nations of the world. What a disgrace, says Owen Gaffney

40 million people in the US lack the security of having a guaranteed meal each day. The US also wastes $40 billion dollars of food each year. It's a harsh contrast. It seems, however, that it's a condition we've come to ...

Spectral images, which contain more color information than is obtainable with a typical camera, reveal characteristics of tissue and other biological samples that can't be seen by the naked eye. A new smartphone-compatib...

The layered superconducting material is characterized by a crystal structure in which a SnAs layer (wherein Sn and As are two-dimensionally bonded to develop superconductivity) and a Na layer (the spacer layer) are alter...

Predicting the twists and turns of a crime drama are hard enough for us - teaching computers to do it will make them better at understanding complex scenarios

In its final years of operation, a particle collider in Northern California was refocused to search for signs of new particles that might help fill in some big blanks in our understanding of the universe.

Physicists begin to embrace alternative explanations for the missing material --

Google was in poll position to win the race for quantum supremacy, the point at which a quantum computer can do things a conventional one can’t. But IBM seems to have pulled the rug from beneath their rivals by carryin...

(Phys.org)--Researchers have introduced a new computing problem and shown that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a classical computer to solve, but in theory it could be efficiently solved using qua...