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Henry Ford didn't invent the motor car. The late 1800s saw a flurry of innovation by hundreds of companies battling to deliver on the promise of fast, efficient and reasonably-priced mechanical transportation. Ford later...

Researchers comment on the perceived link between violence and video games. They conclude claims that there is consistent scientific evidence that video gaming encourages violence, are false.

As regular readers of the site know, we try to take time each week to answer an interesting or informative question that lands in our "Ask a Physicist" inbox. Part of the reason why we do this is to make sure that we're ...

Babies as young as three months old can learn patterns by looking at the world around them, researchers report.

According to researchers, the 'loudness' of our internal thoughts influences how we perceive the volume of external sounds.

Amidst growing concerns over the low uptake of flu shots in Europe, scientists from the Italian National Research Council and the JRC confirm that vaccinations remain the best way forward when it comes to stopping the sp...

Early life exposure to greenspace may result in beneficial structural changes in the developing brain, researchers report. The study found children who grew up in areas surrounded by greenspace had better working memory ...

Pions are particles that usually decay very quickly. But right after the big bang, they could have made stars that last long enough for us to detect now

Toenail fungus is not sexy, and the microbes that cause the infection appear to agree.

Researchers report a simple walking test may help doctors to accurately diagnose the onset of dementia.

A new study reveals pedophilic men have increased activity in the left anterior insular cortex when viewing images of young animals.

Researchers report analyzing a person's tears may help doctors diagnose Parkinson's disease. The study reveals those with Parkinson's had increased levels of oligomeric alpha synuclein in their tears compared to those wi...

Researchers have demonstrated that tiny micrometer-sized crystals--just barely visible to the human eye--can "walk" inchworm-style across the slide of a microscope. Other crystals are capable of different modes of locomo...

Researchers at Purdue University have performed the first experimental tests of several fundamental theorems in thermodynamics, verifying the relationship between them and providing a better understanding of how nanopart...

Harvard researchers have developed a metasurface comprising a single planar layer of nanostructures exhibiting strong optical chirality in transmission. This means it can let circularly polarized light of one polarizatio...

It is one of the most astonishing results of physics--when a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state with almost perfect precision. Gas particles, for example, chaotically swirling around in a c...

Quantum computers may one day solve algorithmic problems that even the biggest supercomputers today can't manage. But how do you test a quantum computer to ensure it is working reliably? Depending on the algorithmic task...

Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and collaborators have reported in Science the development of a so-called hyperbolic metasurface on which light propagates with completely reshaped wafefronts. This sc...

Since the end of the second world war a "long peace" has prevailed around the world, but far from being a new era in history it could just be a statistical fluke

Infants who eat fish are less likely to develop hay fever later on, a finding that suggests changing diets have played a role in rising allergy rates

Humans are still evolving... but before toasting to that, know this: Some of the genetic changes may make hangovers worse, a new study finds.

Whether fidget spinners really help kids focus is unclear, but one thing is for sure: Don't take the ball-bearing toy apart and swallow the pieces.