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In 47 CE, Scribonius Largus, court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius, described in his Compositiones a method for treating chronic migraines: place torpedo fish on the scalps of patients to ease their pain with ele...

Sébastien Février, researcher at XLIM (CNRS/Université de Limoges), and his team demonstrated that a bench-top, optical fibre-based laser source can be used to perform infrared spectromicroscopy with a precision rival...

These two-minute animations break down the accelerator systems at Fermilab and CERN. Curious how scientists can deliver particles to particle physics experiments? Two new animations from Fermilab and CERN will help you v...

Researchers at Griffith University working with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have unveiled a stunningly accurate technique for scientific measurements which uses a sing...

Scientists have engineered 9 human cells to work as a simple, programmable computer. It could lead to implants that automatically detect and treat disease

A US woman has been treated with an experimental skin spray after losing a third of her skin to flesh-eating bacteria

An assessment of Earth's biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock-on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food

Optical Mammography, or OM, which uses harmless red or infrared light, has been developed for use in conjunction with X-rays for diagnosis or monitoring in cases demanding repeated imaging where high amounts of ionizing ...

Researchers report writing about past failures can lower the stress response and enhance performance when faced with a new stressful task.

Researchers report maternal behavior can change the DNA of her offspring. The findings, researchers say, could lead to better understanding of some neuropsychiatric disorders.

Facebook is made to keep you coming back for another fix, which spells trouble for the #DeleteFacebook movement, says Lara Williams

A new study challenges long held beliefs about how learning occurs. Researchers suggest learning occurs in dendrites that are in closer proximity to neurons, as opposed to occurring solely in synapses.

Scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and elsewhere are at a crossroads in their 50-year quest to go beyond the Standard Model in physics.

FLEET researchers achieved a significant landmark in the search for a functional topological transistor in 2017, using an applied electric field to switch the electronic conduction mode of a topological material.

Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them

A new study reveals how neurons implicated in the perception of motion are formed in the brains of fruit flies.

A team of researchers with members from the University of Hawaii, the Unilever company and Princeton University has found that the critical factor involved in cleaning clothes in a washing machine is a phenomenon called ...

A novel lens offers scientists the sharpest X-ray images yet from the nano world. The device is made from alternating layers of tungsten carbide and silicon carbide and can focus hard X-rays into a spot of less than ten ...

The CRISPR immune system from bacteria has been engineered into silkworms, allowing them to fight off a virus that plagues the silk industry

China's Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.

In the deep North Atlantic, a small but ghastly-looking anglerfish floats in the inky black, eerily lit by her wispy, glowing fishing lure and the specks of light illuminating her long fin-rays.

Popular "Tomb Raider" Lara Croft can't hold a candle to these groundbreaking women in archaeology.