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The Big Bang theory is the best known and most accepted explanation for the beginning and evolution of the universe, but it is hardly a consensus among scientists.

The temperature and pressure inside Jupiter range from about -100°C near the edge to about 15,000°C and 50m times the Earth's atmospheric pressure in the middle. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are similar pressure cookers....

The boundary between the Earth's outermost layer, the crust, and the underlying mantle is speckled with mysterious, blob-like regions that slow down seismic waves and lead to volcanic eruptions.

For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing (HPC) to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment--an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed da...

Winter crises grip the UK health system with worrying predictability and this year's could be severe. We can move beyond this seasonal chaos, says Luke Allen

As many as 27 per cent of men - and 29 per cent of women - in the UK are now obese, meaning the country has one of the worst obesity problems in Europe

In a late-night test, North Korea has launched what appears to be an intercontinental ballistic missile with potential to reach as far as Washington, DC

Most of Australia's Great Barrier Reef may well be destroyed in the next few decades, but hubs of resilient coral could make larvae to restore it all

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data. Scientists have never actually seen the Higgs boson. They've never seen the inside of a proton, either, and th...

The rise and fall of the Indus civilization gets a new narrative.

Add one more thing to the list of tasks your smartphone can perform. University of Houston researchers have released an open-source dataset offering instructions to people interested in building their own smartphone micr...

You're not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate

Millions of years of evolution have allowed animals to develop some elegant and highly efficient solutions to problems like locomotion, flight, and dexterity. As Boston Dynamics unveils its latest mechanical animals, her...

Adolescent brains aren't developed enough to adapt to relatively risky situations, which may explain why some choose not to study for important exams

Last week, a story about a 3,000-year-old castle discovered beneath the waters of Lake Van, in Turkey, went viral. But what's the real story behind this Atlantis-like discovery?

A surge in road accidents in Indiana has been blamed on Pokémon Go, but other apps are also likely to be contributing to a rise in crashes

A surge in road accidents in Indiana has been blamed on Pokémon Go, but other apps are also likely to be contributing to a rise in crashes

Nathan Shedroff is one of the pioneers of experience design as a strategy. He is the founding director of the groundbreaking MBA in Design strategy and firmly believes design is a critical and teachable discipline all or...

A diving team has discovered the remains of an underwater castle, or fortress, beneath Lake Van in Turkey.

A team at the University of Sydney and Microsoft, in collaboration with Stanford University in the US, has miniaturised a component that is essential for the scale-up of quantum computing. The work constitutes the first ...

Inspired by white blood cells rolling on endovascular walls before transmigrating to the disease site, scientists at ETH Zurich have succeeded in getting particles to move along the walls of microscopic, three-dimensiona...

Realisation of room temperature spin-orbit torque-driven magnetisation switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures has promising applications in low power consumption and high integration density memo...