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Recent advances in quantum computers may soon give hackers access to machines powerful enough to crack even the toughest of standard internet security codes. With these codes broken, all of our online data--from medical ...

Using lasers instead of electrodes to vibrate the hairs in the inner ears could lead to less damaging cochlear implants

High levels of the protein have been linked with nausea in pregnant women - a discovery that might lead to new anti-sickness drugs

Go beyond your family tree to uncover ancestry markers in your DNA, with a genetic testing kit that you can use at home.

Algorithm trained on 1000 children as they age could help flag up missing kids long after they age out of their last known photographs

From cultured meat to a "MicrobeMiner" for antibiotics and liquid biocomputers, a new wave of consumer biotechnology products is transforming the world -- and your shopping cart. From inside the world's largest pre-s...

An EU project working with ultrafast optics, furthers control over the spatial-temporal quantum states of light, advancing quantum information science.

For Black Friday, Amazon is selling this app-enabled R2-D2 droid figure for its lowest price.

Bouncing sound waves off your lips, jaw and tongue as you speak a passphrase can make sure the person trying to access your secure information is really you

An international collaboration of scientists from RIKEN's Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory (FSL), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and GSI Darmstadt, have...

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A team of Department of Energy scientists at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research has discovered the fastest magnesium-ion solid-state conductor, a major step towards m...

(Science China Press) Quantum computation is one of the ways to break the bottle-neck of modern IC. Holonomic quantum computation is a quantum computation strategy that promises some built-in noise-resilience features. N...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Without countermeasures, climate change will negatively impact animals in pig and poultry production. Beside health and wellbeing of the animals, heat stress also affects per...

Interacting with a digital representation of a hallucinated voice can reduce the power it has over people with schizophrenia, and the distress it causes

At 10:50 yesterday morning scientists at the pioneering SESAME light source saw First Monochromatic Light through the XAFS/XRF (X-ray absorption fine structure/X-ray fluorescence) spectroscopy beamline, signalling the st...