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On November 30th, 2016, more than 100,000 people around the world contributed to a suite of first-of-a-kind quantum physics experiments known as The BIG Bell Test. Using smartphones and other internet-connected devices, ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk is dating musician Grimes, apparently because of a shared love of nerdy puns.

Donald Trump didn't like the Iran deal's 2031 deadline, but by then we will have the tech to continue keeping a lid on Iran's - and others' - nuclear ambitions

The late physicist Stephen Hawking made a huge contribution to cosmology during his lifetime, but he didn't quite manage to resolve all the mysteries of the universe. Now one of the last papers he ever worked on has been...

According to researchers, Alzheimer's disease may be more prevalent in women, not simply because they live longer on average, but due to the APOE E4 gene. Researchers found the APOE association was greater for women in t...

A study to be presented at the 175th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America reports virtual reality technology may help us better understand how we make sense of the world with sound.

Researchers have found an association between the Per2 gene and breast cancer. The Per2 gene plays an important role in both the body's circadian clock and mammary gland development.

For those with treatment resistant depression, a new study reports ECT may not only be the most effective treatment, but also the most cost effective.

This picture is of an Edith's checkerspot butterfly laying her eggs on some blue-eyed Mary, the plant usually eaten by its caterpillars. This week's Nature, however, describes the fate of a population of the insect in Ne...

Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment

Stopping drinking for just one month is enough to dramatically lower the levels of hormone-like chemicals in your blood that help cancer to develop and spread

When viewing OCD related images, those with the disorder had increased distress and higher levels of activity in emotion related brain regions than their siblings who did not suffer from OCD, researchers report.

One species of pseudoscorpion has learned to work together to bring down prey larger than themselves - and when they make a kill they make sure the food is shared equitably

"The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing." -Peter Diamandis Many of today's biggest companies will no longer exist in 10 years. Why? Because rapidly emerging new technologies will make the probl...

A new result from the Q-weak experiment at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility provides a precision test of the weak force, one of four fundamental forces in nature. This result, pub...

NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory will allow physicists to play with quantum phenomena like never before --

Winter sports such as skiing, speed skating, figure skating, and curling require the slippery surfaces of ice and snow. While the fact that the ice surface is slippery is widely acknowledged, it is far from being complet...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has successfully demonstrated that a new type of optical magnetometer, the NV magnetoscope, can map a unique feature of superconductive materials that along with zero resis...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a light-based device that mimics a fish's incredible jamming avoidance response (JAR) by moving the frequency of an emitted signal away from other signals that could pote...

Google's AI assistant is getting an upgrade to let it make you an appointment by impersonating a human on the phone, but this tech could cause a host of problems

Researchers have identified a link between visual processing problems and an increased risk of developing a mental health disorder. The study reports the risk for mental illness increases when the visual cortex has diffi...

A new study reveals a list of non verbal behaviors we exhibit when we are attracted to another person.