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The unusually cold and snowy conditions hitting the US now, and experienced last week across Europe, may be a direct consequence of the Arctic's warmer winter

A day at the beach beset by heavy clouds, or the sticky heat of a salty haze can seem like the work of large, unpredictable forces. But behind such atmospheric phenomena are billions of tiny interactions between the air ...

While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control of living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and the physical for...

Despite the belief that armies of bots are spreading misinformation, it is people who are most likely to share incorrect information

Water, always important, always controversial, always fascinating, remains surprising. For a substance that is ubiquitous on Earth, three quarters of our planet is covered with it, researchers can still be surprised by s...

A new study reveals how the brain manages to perform learned categorization while under stress.

Home-made drones are attacking the world's most sophisticated defence systems. It's not clear if the attacks have worked yet, but it's a trend likely to continue

Home-made drones are attacking the world's most sophisticated defence systems. It's not clear if the attacks have worked yet, but it's a trend likely to continue

A virus scooped up from a lake saved an 80-year-old Connecticut man who had a life-threatening bacterial infection in his heart.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new technology for switching heat flows 'on' or 'off'. The findings were published in the article "Millimeter-scale liquid metal droplet ther...

Sleep spindles assist with the processing of relevant memories during sleep and help boost memory consolidation, researchers report.

This flexible and transparent material generates electricity from your skin as you bend or stretch. It could be worn as a second skin to power wearable tech

Researchers report a link between exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and abnormal brain development in the offspring, which can lead to cognitive problems throughout life.

A new study reports serotonin enhances our desire to persist at a task.

Like millions of other individuals in the workforce, you're probably wondering if you will one day be replaced by a machine. If you're a student, you're probably wondering if your chosen profession will even exist by the...

TRAVELLERS have long envied the birds. In 1842 William Henson, a British lacemaker, somewhat optimistically filed a patent for an "aerial steam carriage". It took another 60 years and the arrival of the internal combusti...

GO INTO a trendy pub and the beer list will be accompanied by tasting notes as purple as in any upmarket wine bar. The "grassy aromas" and "citrus notes" come from the flowers of Humulus lupulus, or the hop plant. These ...

ON MARCH 1st, addressing Russia's parliament, President Vladimir Putin announced a range of new, high-tech, "invincible" nuclear weapons. Lest anyone was unsure at whom that part of the speech was aimed, it featured a co...

A forensic anthropologist says he's 99 percent sure bones found on this Pacific Island belong to the lost Amelia Earhart.

Electromagnetic radiation is pervasive. It comes in many forms, including radio waves, microwaves and high-energy X-rays and gamma rays. But what, precisely, is it?

Stromatolites represent some of the oldest fossils on Earth but the assumption that they formed in sun-drenched seas has now been challenged

Nicolas Pavillon (Assistant Professor), Nicholas I. Smith (Associate Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University) and collaborators developed a label-free multimodal microscopy platform that allows t...