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Martha Jones: It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race. The Doctor: Then don't step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you? Science fiction writers...

Researchers reveal ultra slow waves of brain activity are linked directly to our state of consciousness.

Fog catchers can provide water for drinking or farming in rain-starved regions. A new material traps water with sticky lubricant to gather bigger drops faster

Gene expressions in the brain that occur early in development may explain why some cerebellar stem cell populations behave differently in people with SCA1, researchers report.

Researchers report 10 percent of people who have attended EDM events have misused opioids in the past 12 months. The number, researchers say, exceeds national averages. Oxycontin was reported to be the most widely misuse...

Researchers reveal lullabies help sooth both baby and mom simultaneously. Additionally, playing music to babies help increase their attention and positive displays of emotion to their mothers.

A new study reveals students who have class times that are out of sync with their circadian rhythms tend to have worse grades.

Symmetry goes inside the CERN Control Centre on restart day. Mike Lamont, the deputy head of the Beams Department at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider, turns and looks toward the entrance of the accelerator control...

Health officials in Illinois are warning people that synthetic marijuana can cause bleeding from the ears and eyes, according to news reports.

A chocolate milkshake may be bliss for your taste buds, but it's not so good for your blood vessels.

Properties, sources and uses of the element hafnium.

The Large Hadron Collider is back in business! On Friday 30 March, at 12:17 pm, protons circulated in the 27-km ring for the first time in 2018. The world's most powerful particle accelerator thus entered its seventh yea...

A team of scientists from across the U.S. has found a new way to create molecular interconnections that can give a certain class of materials exciting new properties, including improving their ability to catalyze chemica...

The new World Happiness Report again ranks Denmark among the top three happiest of 155 countries surveyed - a distinction that the country has earned for seven consecutive years.

The Quantum Shorts competition invited stories incorporating the laws of quantum mechanics --

For the first time, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have successfully 3-D-printed optical-quality glasses, on par with commercial glass products currently available on the market.

There are no egg-laying bunnies in the Bible. But there is one in this 1682 medical journal.

The little T. rex would have been just 6 or 7 years old when it died.

It sure looks like the abandoned Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will put on its re-entry light show on April Fool's Day.

The modern-day theoretical physicist faces a taxing uphill climb. "As we learn more, reality becomes ever more subtle; the absolute becomes relative, the fixed becomes dynamical, the definite is laden with uncertainty," ...

Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine

SpaceX pulled off another successful launch today, lofting a set of new polar-orbiting satellites. By itself, this Falcon 9 launch isn't unique. So why did the new launch generate worldwide attention?