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Over the last 250 million years land animals have repeatedly begun exploiting the seas, giving rise to creatures like whales and walruses. The question is why

Rice University scientists have discovered what may be the simplest form of locomotion in the travels of micron-scale particles linked and driven by a magnetic field.

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

Researchers have identified neurons that help to initiate an escape from danger response in fruit flies.

Discovery about fear pathways in the brains of worms could have implications for better understanding anxiety in humans, researchers report.

Materials used in electronic devices are typically chosen because they possess either special magnetic or special electrical properties. However, an international team of researchers using neutron scattering recently ide...

Researchers reveal people are able to correctly identify, with 75% accuracy, expressions of emotion in others based on subtle changes in color around the nose, eyebrows and chin.

The most precise calculation of the lifetime of our universe finds that a bubble of vacuum energy made by the Higgs boson could envelop us all in 10139 years

As long as his ideas continue to spread and inspire people, Hawking's mind will live on. The cover art of Dr. Stephen Hawking's bestseller, A Brief History of TimeImage Credit:Bantam Publishing Each person, in the course...

An Uber self-driving car has crashed into a 49-year-old woman in Arizona. This is the first time a car in autonomous mode has killed a pedestrian

Early diagnosis in thyroid cancer can improve a patient's likelihood of recovery, but current screening methods use instruments with poor sensitivity and can yield inaccurate results. Consequently, doctors often have to ...

Some novel materials that sound too good to be true turn out to be true and good. An emergent class of semiconductors, which could affordably light up our future with nuanced colors emanating from lasers, lamps, and even...

Japanese researchers have optimized the design of laboratory-grown, synthetic diamonds. This brings the new technology one step closer to enhancing biosensing applications, such as magnetic brain imaging. The advantages ...

Whether they're used as digging tools, grasping suckers or killing machines, animal feet can be downright bizarre.

Even Michael Jordan needed teammates. Makeshift stands selling Bulls merchandise inhabited every corner of Chicagoland after "Air Jordan" led his team to their third straight championship in 1993--and all the stands were...

A motif of Japanese basketweaving known as the kagome pattern has preoccupied physicists for decades. Kagome baskets are typically made from strips of bamboo woven into a highly symmetrical pattern of interlaced, corner-...

In the coming decades Russia will experience worse heatwaves than the 2010 event, which killed 55,000 people, while the US will bake in the West and Great Lakes regions

Human embryonic stem cells have been used to replenish damaged eye tissue resulting from age-related macular degeneration

When people engage in media multitasking activities that make them feel good, they are more prone to select healthier snacks, a new study reports.

A new study sheds light on the molecular mechanisms behind ALS.

Researchers report individual differences in functional brain connectivity reflects differences in how certain intrinsic connectivity networks engage during decision making.

Ever wished you could be in two places at the same time? The XPRIZE Foundation wants to make that a reality with a $10 million competition to build robot avatars that can be controlled from at least 100 kilometers away. ...