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A collaboration of Belgian, French and British scientists, including researchers from Imperial College London, have developed a technology to detect a new kind of elementary particle: the sterile neutrino. The new detect...

The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has shattered another world record with the testing of a 32-tesla magnet--33 percent stronger than what had previously been the world's s...

Before scientists can effectively capture and deploy fusion energy, they must learn to predict major disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the walls of doughnut-shaped fusion devices called tokamaks. Time...

ICFO researchers created a novel type of liquid 100 million times more dilute than water and 1 million times thinner than air. The experiments, published in Science, exploit a fascinating quantum effect to produce drople...

In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has demonstrated how a device that uses beams of light to grip and manipulate tiny objects, including indi...

Scientists say they've figured out why an Austrian who became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound fell faster than the drag of his body should have allowed.

Spy satellite and drone imagery is revealing ancient Silk Road outposts and other lost archeological treasures in the treacherous deserts of Afghanistan.

Two peach stones found in sediment beneath Saint Mark's Basilica could extend the history of Venice by 180 years

A British surgeon has pleaded guilty to charges that he marked his initials into patients' organs using a medical instrument called an "argon beam coagulator," according to news reports.

This holiday season, will you view the glass as half full or half empty? Well, that might depend on the size of the glass.

THE frustrations of air travel are many and varied: enduring the scrum to board; rummaging for room in the overhead lockers; waiting patiently for "the last two remaining passengers" to be extracted from the shops. After...

'OUMUAMUA, an object tumbling through space that was discovered on October 19th, has already made history. The speed at which it is moving relative to the sun means that it cannot be native to the solar system. Its offic...

ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called "Slaughterbots" was uploaded to YouTube. It is the brainchild of Stuart Russell, a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, and was paid for by the F...

In an interview at Exponential Medicine in San Diego, speaker Brad Burge discussed the innovative applications of MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy or molly) in psychotherapy. Burge is the director of strategic communicati...

For the first time, researchers at the University of Bayreuth and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in applying nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in experiments analysing material sam...

Home can be a slippery concept. But psychologists have long understood that it plays a huge role in self-identity and emotional well-being.

More than 1,800 years ago, an artist in ancient Egypt painted the portrait of a large-eyed woman wearing a red tunic -- a painting that ended up resting on the woman's dead, mummified body.

This year CERN's data centre broke its own record, when it collected more data than ever before.

Headlines describing the discovery of a shark over 500 years old were a little off the mark.

With little sunlight and few soil nutrients, Antarctic microbes have evolved to be creative.

A glass tube filled with lightning sparked plenty of attention after it was posted on Reddit this month. Here's the science behind the trick.

Three mathematicians have a different explanation for the accelerating expansion of the universe that does without theories of "dark energy." Einstein's original equations for General Relativity actually predict cosmic a...