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For photographers and scientists, lenses are lifesavers. They reflect and refract light, making possible the imaging systems that drive discovery through the microscope and preserve history through cameras.

For the first time, physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators, led by a team from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, demonstrated a long-theorized nuclear e...

President Trump wants to cut back on major NASA projects, including a space telescope to study dark matter and dark energy, and US funding for the space station

According to a new study, the display of aggression following the consumption of alcohol is linked to a dip in activity in the prefrontal cortex.

Thousands of pot supporters mark the "high" holiday by lighting up at 4:20 p.m. But the celebration may increase the risk of fatal car crashes.

Artificial intelligence can now carry out many of the same cognitive tasks humans can, but we still don't really understand how AIs think. Google DeepMind plans to train long-standing tests of human cognitive skills on m...

Atomic clocks are the best timekeepers, but they usually must be kept in a lab to work. Now, they've been used to measure gravity's effect on time in the Alps

Who knows what "alien" creatures they'll find around Antarctica.

Researchers speculate what the future may hold for artificial intelligence technologies, and us.

Power transformation. Electrification of vehicles. Creating motors that are efficient. Some of the biggest technologies of the future rest on finding ways to efficiently transform energy. And the backbone that enables th...

In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the mass of the W boson. This is one of two elemen...

Researchers report the amygdala may play a bigger role in facial recognition than previously thought. According to a new study, the amygdala responds more specifically to images of the face than the fusiform face area do...

Meteorologists cannot currently predict the monster storms that occasionally strike Australia, but decades of newspaper accounts suggest there may be a pattern

A team of researchers at the University of Maryland has found a new way to route photons at the micrometer scale without scattering by building a topological quantum optics interface. In their paper published in the jour...

Good air in, bad air out.

Efficiency in nature's biomolecular processes, such as photosynthesis, is not wholly explained by conventional theory. The EU-funded PAPETS project explored quantum effects to better understand these processes, recently ...

The stones may have been part of a ritual sacrifice ceremony, archaeologists say.

Stone fragments with patterns of lines scratched into them could be the earliest known maps in the world.

Under Trump, NASA is planning to move in a big way into quiet supersonic jets, perhaps at the expense of the agency's science mission.

An Arizona woman woke up speaking with a British accent, even though she's never left the country.

An exclusive video from National Geographic shows Elon Musk's surprised, joyful reaction to the successful first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6.

An experimental drug, made in Japan, may be able to stop flu symptoms within 24 hours.