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Researchers have developed an easy-to-build camera that produces 3D images from a single 2D image without any lenses. In an initial application of the technology, the researchers plan to use the new camera, which they ca...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern devices, act like electronic switches controlling the flow of current across circuits. In the last few decades, they have shrunk more than 1000 times in size, making devices suc...

A research team including Georgia Institute of Technology professor Martin Mourigal used neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study copper elpasolite, a mineral that can be driven to an exotic magnetic ...

University College London scientists make physics festive with sweaters and songs at their annual holiday gathering. Every year, postdocs in high-energy physics at University College London are asked to give a short, lig...

Add some science to your holiday carols. There are plenty of songs about snow, decking the halls and holiday cheer--but where are the festive songs of science? For those singers who prefer curling up by the Bunsen burner...

From the first gene-editing of human embryos to Cassini's death plunge into Saturn, we round up the most amazing news stories of the year

4.5 billion years ago, a rock called Theia crashed into Earth and formed the moon. Now we know that it was probably only about a tenth the mass of our planet

Amid a glut of drug overdoses, gun deaths and suicide, shorter lives and poorer health are becoming the new norm in the US. It's alarming, says Laudan Aron

On a recent Friday afternoon, I was summoned to the top floor of River Ecosystem, a technology accelerator in San Francisco's Soma neighborhood, to meet Tom Impallomeni, a serial entrepreneur who promised to teach me to ...

Those mysterious UFO alloys that the government can't identify? Chemists don't buy it.

New findings have solved a longstanding obstacle in research to understand the effects of heat conduction in solid materials, a critical issue in many applications, from energy conversion to electronics cooling.

A bold plan to regrow lost body parts in mammals could be realised by cracking the body's bioelectric code

Today's quantum technologies are set to revolutionize information processing, communications, and sensor technology in the coming decades. The basic building blocks of future quantum processors are, for example, atoms, s...

A woman's emotional well-being and her mental outlook can also play important roles in pregnancy.

From mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia, to a previously undiscovered cave holding Dead Sea Scrolls, here are 10 of the coolest archaeological finds of 2017.

The CMS Collaboration at CERN have just made public around half of the data collected in 2012 by the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This release includes sets used to discover the Higgs boson, and is being sh...

Solar and renewable energy is getting hot, thanks to nanoscientists--those who work with materials smaller than the width of a human hair--at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory who have dis...

Archaeologists have revealed a richly decorated Byzantine church during salvage excavations in Israel.

The ruins of a richly decorated church were unearthed during salvage excavations in the city of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, in Israel.

'Tis the season ... in which chocolate treats poison pet dogs, according to a new study from England. The research found that pups are four times more likely to go to the vet for chocolate poisoning during Christmas than...

The winter solstice is in full stride today (Dec. 21), marking 2017's day with the fewest hours of daylight for the Northern Hemisphere. Here's why.

A quarter of older adults who break their hip die within a year. Alice Klein went to try out an obstacle course designed to help them stay on their feet