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Scientists at the University of Sussex have disproved the existence of a specific type of axion - an important candidate 'dark matter' particle - across a wide range of its possible masses.

For the first time, engineers at Caltech have created a stable ring of plasma in open air--essentially capturing lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle.

Quantum computing could solve problems impossible for today's supercomputers. The challenge for this new form of computing is processing the quantum bits (qubits) that represent data. A qubit can be made by controlling t...

Rendez-vous IN 2029 the inhabitants, if any, of the planet GJ 273b will receive a message that will change their lives forever. Encoded in radio signals emanating from an innocuous-looking blue-green planet 12.4 light-ye...

The leverlike guitar accessory known as a whammy bar is best used to bend and distort a single note--think Jimi Hendrix's famous rendition of the Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock 1969. But it doesn't sound very nice i...

People are starting to alter their own DNA with cheap, easy gene-editing technology. Is it time to regulate CRISPR?

Pluto is far from the sun, so astronomers expect its atmosphere to be cold, but it's colder than predicted. Now we know that soot sends the sun's heat back into space

A gene variant that arose six generations ago in an Amish group seems to make people carrying the gene live ten years longer, and protect them from diabetes

The effort to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics always hits one snag: gravity. An experiment could finally tell us if it is a quantum force

Some species of spider have short biological clocks that have to be reset each morning. Being out of sync with the 24-hour cycle in this way might help them avoid prey

Beam generator puts country in elite company for doing experiments in materials science and other fields --

Science Channel reboots "MythBusters" with a bang.

New approaches are needed to control the spread of epidemic diseases, according to the developers of a new model of the way pathogens can 'cooperate'.

Another potentially habitable planet has been found in Earth's neck of the cosmic woods, and it may be an even better life-hosting candidate than the famed Proxima b.

Inventing and improving medical devices can be a long and arduous process. Oftentimes it's also a process that takes place far from the end user--the patient. But what if research and development of medical devices was d...

Ask any neuroscientist to draw you a neuron, and it'll probably look something like a star with two tails: one stubby with extensive tree-like branches, the other willowy, lengthy and dotted with spindly spikes. While a ...

Asgardia is a 'virtual nation' that says it aims to build sovereign colonies in space. On 12 November it launched a satellite carrying its citizens' data

A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that preserves the artist's own handprints sold for more than $450 million at auction tonight, "obliterating the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction.

Everyone has probably had a problem with loose contacts at some point. Electronic equipment malfunctioning is often caused by poor plug connections. In particular in the automotive industry, where electronics are increas...

Researchers have published a paper that demonstrations the first laboratory experiment to use liquid marbles to create collision-based computation in research.

Turmeric is a spice with a long history of use in cooking and religious rituals, and evidence suggests it may hold health benefits as well.

The atoms inside materials are not always perfectly ordered, as usually depicted in models. In magnetic, ferroelectric (or showing electric polarity) and alloy materials, there is competition between random arrangement o...