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The Higgs boson has been seen acting just as the standard model of physics predicts - which leaves us without clues to dark matter and other mysteries

An increasing number of major car manufacturers are developing solutions in a space that at first glance may seem like a strange choice: energy storage. BMW recently signed a contract that adds 500 of its i3 battery pack...

IN MAY some 250 scientists and policy types from around the world convened in Gothenburg, Sweden, to discuss a dirty secret of the three-year-old Paris climate agreement. Virtually all simulations which chart paths towar...

NASA did find two more scraps of evidence about the kind of life that might exist on Mars. Here's what the new research really shows.

A patient missing most of her occipital lobes on both sides of the brain is helping researchers shed light on how the brain processes objects in motion.

Researchers have created a new model that may help explain how the brain stores memories of tangible events. The new model explains how neural activity in the hippocampus can help map space, time and context in episodic ...

Babies in NICU sleep better when their hear their mom's voice, a new study reports. Researchers found babies slept better and woke less often when they were played recordings of their mother's reading a story.

The Curiosity rover has found methane in Mars's atmosphere and complex organic molecules preserved for 3.5 billion years. Both could have come from life

Alpha and theta oscillations move rhythmically across the brain, reflecting neural activity propagating across the cortex to help form working memory, a new study reports.

It sounds crazy, but one company is trying it...and it looks like it's going to work.At first blush, the idea of manufacturing something anywhere other than Earth's surface sounds like one of Elon Musk's fever dreams. Su...

A virus most people have never heard of has killed 17 people in India, and disease experts are getting concerned

By transplanting V2a interneurons, researchers improved respiratory function in mice with spinal cord injuries, a new study reports.

A new study reveals people respond to stimuli in another person's peripersonal space as they could their own.

Researchers reveal news stories about potential threats become more negative, hysterical and inaccurate when passed from person to person. The study reveals the effect is not counteracted by presenting people with more b...

According to researchers, the behavior of the owner may influence dogs during problem solving tasks.

Northern fur seals mostly sleep with half their brain while they're at sea, but sleep with all their brain while on land - unlike any other animal studied

At least two more Americans have been evacuated from China to be treated for mysterious headaches brought on by bizarre noises.

The billionaire businessman says he'll ride into space within months, paving the way to routine suborbital passenger trips. Don't get too excited, says Paul Marks

Magnetic islands, bubble-like structures that form in fusion plasmas, can grow and disrupt the plasmas and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities that house fusion reactions. Recent research at the U.S. Department...

Creatures from the black lagoon DURING the Cambrian period, which began 541m years ago, animal life took a remarkable leap forward. The first creatures believed by most (though not all) palaeontologists to be multicellul...

FOUR years ago a woman in her early 30s was hit by a car in London. She needed emergency surgery to reduce the pressure on her brain. Her surgeon, Chris Mansi, remembers the operation going well. But she died, and Mr Man...

A gambling experiment has found that the taste of umami seems to make us more conservative in our choices, while sour flavours may promote risk-taking