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Researchers from Empa have developed a flexible material that generates electricity when stressed. In future, it might be used as a sensor, integrated into clothing or even implanted in the human body, for instance, to p...

We thought walking in lock step made bridges sway, like London's Millennium Bridge when it opened. But it turns out crowd size matters more than rhythm

If you were sitting in the upper rows of an ancient Greek amphitheater, could you have heard the actors sigh or strike a match?

The little bug was right there all along.

Lasers that generate plasma can provide insight into bursts of subatomic particles that occur in deep space, scientists have found. Such findings could help scientists understand cosmic rays, solar flares and solar erupt...

Nicobar long-tailed macaques have learned to use an array of tools, from wrapping prickly food in leaves to avoid getting hurt, to using bird feathers to floss their teeth

To Bob Hariri, the body is a machine. Hariri is a surgeon, entrepreneur, and biomedical scientist. But perhaps it's his time flying jets that most strongly lends itself to such thinking. "I've been flying longer than any...

IBM has announced a milestone in its race against Google and other big tech firms to build a powerful quantum computer.

Recently, I interviewed my friend Ray Kurzweil at the Googleplex for a 90-minute webinar on disruptive and dangerous ideas, a prelude to my fireside chat with Ray at Abundance 360 this January. Ray is my friend and cofou...

A seemingly paradoxical prediction in physics has now been confirmed in an experiment: No matter whether an object is opaque or transparent, the average length of the light's paths through the object is always the same.

Coconut crabs were thought to be purely opportunistic scavengers, but these huge arthropods are actually active predators that may dominate their island homes

There are enough real benefits of medical marijuana, so why are people making them up? It's time to stop overhyping what weed can do

Printed plastic solar cells should be able to harvest enough energy from indoor light to power your phone within the next few months

Stanford scientists will lead a new national cooperative effort, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Center for Coatings Research, to improve detection of gravitational waves at the twin LIGO facilities.

Simply put, your body can't turn fat into muscle. And the reverse is also true: Your body can't turn muscle into fat, either. Here's why.

Rather than gluten, fructan molecules seem to be to blame for sensitive guts. If true, gluten-free people could eat soy sauce and sourdough bread again

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are significantly better at photon detection efficiency (DE) compared to their semiconducting counterparts, and have enabled many breakthrough applications in qua...

Lions photographed in a same-sex embrace aren't having sex.

Do you have a cluttered coffee table or a stack of boxes from that last move you've never gotten around to putting away? Good news -- your tendency toward untidiness isn't unhygienic.

His name is Sudan, and he's been alone for awhile.

The search for the ancient chemical origins of life has a new candidate -- a multitasking enzyme that may have set the evolutionary ball rolling.

(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities) Until recently, it was assumed that the ink used for writing was primarily carbon-based at least until the fourth and fifth centuries AD. But in a new University of Cope...