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A team of researchers has devised a simple way to tune a hallmark quantum effect in graphene--the material formed from a single layer of carbon atoms--by bathing it in light. Their theoretical work, which was published r...

On January 12th, the first full length, main stream album co-written by artificial intelligence was released. Researchers belie the collaboration could lead to a brand new style of music composition.

A new study reports babies born early in the third trimester of pregnancy are more likely to show delayed development of the auditory cortex.

Italy's famous volcano Mount Etna may be fed mostly by hot water and carbon dioxide, with only a small dose of molten rock to make it resemble a classic volcano

Two new studies consider the potential of using psychedelics to help treat depression. Imperial College London researchers report psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, can help to relieve symptoms of depres...

By some back-of-the-envelope estimates, around 0.2-0.5 percent of the world's land surface is covered in roads. This proportion is projected to increase by 60 percent by 2050. It's a staggering fraction of territory for ...

You don't have to be perfectly organized to pull off a wave, according to University of Chicago scientists.

The DNA of Hans Jonaton, an ex-slave who fled to Iceland in 1802, has been reconstructed using only the genes of his descendants

During the Jurassic period, about 161 million years ago, a duck-size dinosaur dazzled its fellow paleo-beasts with its rainbow-colored, iridescent feathers.

This is the oldest iridescent dinosaur on record.

Gamma ray bursts, intense explosions of light, are the brightest events ever observed in the universe - lasting no longer than seconds or minutes. Some are so luminous that they can be observed with the naked eye, such a...

Some 10 years ago, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) entered a new field of research by starting to generate ultracold neutrons (UCN) for use in fundamental research in physics. The participating physicists and c...

The common link between liquid-crystal TVs and the birth of the universe, when you look at the big picture, is that they are both characterized by the intriguing phenomenon in which matter abruptly changes states.

Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected

A 34-year-old man in England ruptured his throat when he tried to stop a sneeze.

A US commission recommending how to solve the painkiller addiction killing 175 Americans a day also shows how opinion got in the way of fact to help cause the problem

Being creative is all about making connections -- in your brain, that is.

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) Roughly 10 percent of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms contain the genetic code for manufacturing a back-up enzyme, called iron iron-only nitrogenase, to do their job....

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Researchers at Mainz University installed an update to their ultracold neutron source. Now the prerequisites are in place that are needed to begin the more sensitive measurements r...

(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) TUAT researchers have achieved the new synthetic route of conjugated tetraenes from inexpensive and easily available 1,3-butadiene and substituted acetylenes by a one-pot ...

(Utah State University) Utah State University biochemists, with collaborators from the University of Washington and Montana State University, report a bacterial, iron-only nitrogenase pathway for methane formation.

(University of Chicago) You don't have to be perfectly organized to pull off a wave, according to University of Chicago scientists. Using a set of gyroscopes linked together, physicists explored the behavior of a materia...