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Melting Arctic ice flooding into the Atlantic could put the ocean circulation that warms Europe in danger, triggering dramatic sea-level rise and drought

Two teams of researchers working independently of one another have come up with an experiment designed to prove that gravity and quantum mechanics can be reconciled. The first team is a pairing of Chiara Marletto of the ...

Better known as glass, silica is a versatile material used in myriad industrial processes, from catalysis and filtration, to chromatography and nanofabrication. Yet despite its ubiquity in labs and cleanrooms, surprising...

A new study reports the brain network that controls theory of mind, the ability to interpret the thoughts of others, is already developed in children as young as three.

When you were a kid, you might have used a magnifying glass to focus the sun's light onto a spot on the sidewalk. The lens of the magnifying glass allowed you to concentrate the sun's energy by converging the light rays ...

You can't see well without lenses that can focus, whether those lenses are in your eye or the microscope you peer through. An innovative new way to focus beams of neutrons might allow scientists to probe the interiors of...

Using CRISPR, researchers have identified a new set of genes that may be implicated in both ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Fast radio bursts are some of the weirdest, most elusive phenomena in the cosmos. We just found three new ones, one of which is the brightest we've ever seen

A new qualitative review calls into question previous findings about the neuroscience of free will.

Psychopaths in films and TV are often masters of manipulation, but in real life they're not so good at subconsciously registering other people's perspectives

According to researchers, a low dose of the anti cancer drug romidepsin reduced social deficits in animal models of autism.

A new study reveals low fat diets and limited caloric intake may prevent age induced activation of microglia.

Female brown widow spiders become less fertile as they age, and more likely to kill and eat their mates - yet males still prefer them over younger females

The latest XPrize competition wants to develop technology that lets anyone control a robot and carry out tasks from 100 kilometres away

Intelligence is thought to be up to 80 per cent genetic, but it's been hard to pin down the genes involved. Now the largest study of its kind has found hundreds

In what seems to be the first unauthorised satellite launch, a start-up company may have sent four tiny - and potentially dangerous - satellites into space

Failure to predict Brexit and Trump has created a crisis for the polling industry, but actually errors in election polls have stayed the same over the past 75 years

In 1991, University of Utah chemist Joel Miller developed the first magnet with carbon-based, or organic, components that was stable at room temperature. It was a great advance in magnetics, and he's been exploring the a...

Heads-up displays are transparent devices used in airplanes and cars to provide information such as critical flight data or driving directions on the windshield. An innovative holography-based approach could soon make th...

If you're not learning, you're missing out on earnings It's easy to write off the Internet of Things (IoT) as a great technology solution looking for a problem; yet another acronym clogging up the hype cycle. High-perfor...

Properties, sources and uses of the element rhodium.