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Scrapbooks or social networks are collections of mostly unsorted data. The search for single elements in very large data volumes, i.e. for the needle in the data haystack, is extremely complex for classical computers. Sc...

Astronomers have spotted a trio of galaxies that look remarkably like the giant spiral of the Milky Way and its two brightest companions, the Magellanic Clouds

If your pregnancy runs past its due date, how long should you wait for a natural birth? It may be safer to induce at 40 weeks, for older mums at least

Lightning can be a destructive force of nature, but it's not immune to human influence. In fact, new research suggests that the exhaust from ships transporting oil, coffee, and probably this holiday season's most popular...

The cremated remains of what could be the Buddha have been found in China, along with 260 buddhist statues.

Archaeologists have discovered 260 Buddhist statues and a box holding the cremated remains of what appear to be the Buddha in China.

Technology has the potential to solve some of our most intractable healthcare problems. In fact, it's already doing so, with inventions getting us closer to a medical Tricorder, and progress toward 3D printed organs, and...

Is more always better? Researchers from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, sought to find out if that was the case for measuring magnetic field strengths. Their paper, appearing this week in AIP Advances, examines whet...

In motors, generators and similar electric machines, the electrical current that powers them generates magnetic fields that magnetize some of the metallic components.

Organic food production requires more land, but a study claims cutting meat eating and food waste will solve this problem. It won't

Barish explains how LIGO became the high-achieving experiment it is today. Illustration by Ana Kova These days the LIGO experiment seems almost unstoppable. In September 2015, LIGO detected gravitational waves directly f...

Prairie voles mate for life, but the bond is likely to break down if one partner drinks more alcohol than the other

Suhit Anantula is an entrepreneur whose work focuses on "humanomics"--the practice of combining business and systems design to make positive human impact. He's been working closely with the elected officials of the city ...

For the first time, a polarising infrared camera - never before used on Earth - has been made small and light enough to detect concealed oil spills

It's the end of the road for the protons this year after a magnificent performance from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). On Friday, the final beams of the 2017 proton run circulated in the LHC. The run ended, as it does ...

Toxic air can take an unexpected toll on physical and mental health.

The 260,000-year-old Dali skull was found in China, but it looks a lot like the earliest known members of our species - which were found in Africa

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed the remains of a 1,500-year-old farming village near the famed Viking site of Jelling in central Jutland.

Half of all the transistors in your iPhone use positively-charged 'holes', rather than negatively-charged electrons to operate.

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Royal Holloway, University of London, have demonstrated an effect known as quantum wave mixing on an artificial atom. Their results, published in ...

A man hunting for mammoth tusks in Eastern Siberia came across an unexpected find in the permafrost: the mummy of a cat that lived during the last ice age.

From the Apple Watch to standing desks, a number of products today attempt to get users to stand more and sit less. But exactly how many more calories are do you burn?