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A letter penned by legendary physicist Albert Einstein discussing one of his groundbreaking theories sold in Jerusalem Tuesday for over $100,000 as part of trove of documents that went under the hammer.

National Society of Black Physicists President Renée Horton talks with Symmetry about finding a place to belong in physics. Recognized as gifted but frustrated by a hearing condition she did not yet understand, Renée H...

On average, about 8 million acres of land burns each year from wildfires. Big fires can reduce forests and grasslands to ash and can destroy homes and lives. Sadly, up to 90 percent of wildland fires in the United States...

A United Kingdom-based researcher claims he's seen evidence of ancient animal tracks on Mars, but don't get too excited. The features he's talking about are widely documented by NASA as interesting crystal shapes that li...

Two massive colonies of Adélie penguins have been discovered on the Danger Islands off the coast of Antarctica, bringing the global population to 8 million

According to a new PNAS study, two areas of the brain are responsible for fear processing.

Researchers have discovered 250 new genes involved in brain aging, including Dbx2 which may prematurely age stem cells.

If there are alien civilisations as technologically advanced as us, we could possibly find them by looking for rings of orbiting satellites around their worlds

Researchers have identified six genes that appear to modify sensory experiences and may alter brain connectivity in those with synesthesia.

Calcium is essential for our bodies to function. Calcium ions enable cells to communicate with one another, allowing neurons to interact, muscles to contract, and the heart's muscle cells to synchronize and beat. To bett...

Short cues can give our brains the context needed to distinguish between two identical images, researchers say.

Babies who look like their dads are healthier, likely because they get more love and "paternal investment" from their fathers.

Ovulation occurs when an egg moves from the ovaries into the fallopian tubes and is ready for fertilization.

Public Health England is launching new schemes to reduce people's calorie intake, but history suggests they won't solve the growing obesity problem

Tattooed mice reveal why some ink never fades.

What if there is a deeper reality out there?

The prestigious annual Brain prize has gone to work on Alzheimer's disease. That's fine, but the failure to find new treatments is worrying, says Jacqui Wise

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the sun may be key to heating its atmosphere and propelling the solar wind.

The substance that left Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal in intensive care in hospital was either delivered in a massive dose, or is a rapidly-acting poison

Researchers from Würzburg and London have succeeded in controlling the coupling of light and matter at room temperature. They have published their results in Science Advances.

A national school-based vaccination program has seen the number of young women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infections fall from 22.7 to 1.5 per cent

The wreck had been lost to history.