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Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a relatively new variety of battery being studied and developed by researchers around the world. Because they have very high theoretical energy densities - storing more than five times...

According to researchers, picking up a coloring pencil and book could be beneficial for your mental health. A new study reveals coloring can help to improve mood, reduce stress and boost creativity.

Researchers report ependymal cells may play an important role in the regulation of neural stem cell function.

Scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin combined state-of-the-art experiments and numerical simulations to test a fundamental assumption underlying strong-...

Individual primates are harder to recognise from their markings than other species. A new face recognition app might be able to help conservationists spot who's who

A new study from Cardiff University researchers reveals the human brain may require fewer initial cells to grown compared to mice and monkeys.

A new study reveals professional dancers' brains react more quickly to musical changes than professional musicians. EEG data reveals dancers display stronger synchronization at a lower theta frequency, which is linked to...

Babies removed from their mothers for 24 hours when they were 9 days old exhibited significant behavioral and brain structural abnormalities in adulthood, a new study reports. Researchers noted memory impairment and less...

Luke, from California, wrote in last week: I'm writing a research paper on time travel. Do you think time travel is possible? Hi Luke,Are we talking backwards or forwards here?One of the most interesting aspects of Einst...

A magnitude 5.0-earthquake shook the Big Island of Hawaii on Thursday (May 3), causing lava to spew into a residential subdivision.

Apes and humans are famed for their opposable thumbs, but our close cousins the bonobos regularly swing through trees without using their thumbs

Researchers have identified a link between the immune system, viral infection and premature hair graying. The study reports mice who went prematurely gray produced unusually high amounts of MITF, a protein that is respon...

Hibernating animals may look lazy, but their bodies are actually accomplishing an outstanding feat.

May the Fourth is upon us and fans don't have to travel to a galaxy far, far away to score Jedi-worthy deals. May the force be with you!

Physicists and material scientists have succeeded in constructing a motor and an energy storage device from one single component. They used an elastic polymer fibre closed into a ring that was made to rotate on applicati...

Today (May 4) -- also known as Star Wars Day -- Live Science is debuting a new movie-themed column and video series, where we'll be looking at how feature films represent science and scientists.

Circulators are important components in communication technology. Their unique way of routing light usually requires centimeter-sized magnets, which are difficult to miniaturize for use on optical chips. Researchers at A...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created new superconductors made of layers of bismuth sulfide (BiS2) and a high-entropy rare earth alloy oxyfluoride, containing five rare earth (RE) elements at the sa...

The manner in which some viruses inject their DNA into bacteria or other types of cells appears to be much simpler than scientists had previously thought. Rather than using molecular engines or complicated mechanisms, vi...

Scientists turn to 1,000-year-old data in the hunt for a missing planet.

In a collaboration between Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark, researchers have discovered a way to subtract a single quantum of light from a laser beam. This work has recently been published in Phy...

The small bit of weapons-grade material, about the weight of a paperclip, was discovered missing after more than a decade.