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The group led by Fabrizio Carbone at EPFL and international colleagues have used ultrafast transmission electron microscopy to take attosecond energy-momentum resolved snapshots (1 attosecond = 10-18 or quintillionths of...

A mere 2 hours before his grisly murder about 5,300 years ago, -tzi the iceman chowed down on some mouthwatering morsels: wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn wheat and -- oddly enough -- poisonous fern...

A newly developed statistical method has allowed researchers to identify 13 cancer predisposition risk genes, 10 of which, the scientists say, are new discoveries.

A new study reveals those with libertarian views are more likely to use adultery dating websites than those of other political persuasions. Researchers report those who claim more sexually conservative values are, parado...

A machine learning algorithm is able to successfully identify, with 78% accuracy, schizophrenia in patients based on brain scans of the superior temporal cortex. The algorithm is also 82% accurate in predicting whether o...

Want to compose a sad song? Include a solo. Researchers report orchestral passages with characteristics that evoke sadness are twice as likely to feature a solo.

You've probably never heard of Mycoplasma genitalium, even though it's one of the most prevalent. Here's what you need to know

For the first time, we have traced a high-energy neutrino back to its origin - a black hole 4 billion light years away - and solved an old cosmic mystery

There's a grim reason behind the unusual behavior of "drunken" kangaroos.

An international team of scientists has found compelling evidence that some the tiniest, most elusive particles we know about--neutrinos--are produced by one of the brightest, most energetic events in the universe. The k...

An international team of scientists has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from the most extreme envir...

Along with gravitational waves, the find adds more options for “multimessenger” astronomy, which does not solely rely on light to gather data --

HOW to prepare for a trip to the mountains concerned hikers five millennia ago as much as it does today. That is the conclusion of the latest study of the mummy dubbed "-tzi the Iceman", who perished 5,300 years ago in t...

The clue is in the tread LISTEN carefully to the footsteps in the family home, especially if it has wooden floors unmuffled by carpets, and you can probably work out who it is that is walking about. The features most com...

Shower time ACID rain damages crops. In particular, it damages rice, because many rice-growing countries, which are predominantly in Asia, do not have in place the pollution-control mechanisms that are now routine in the...

Study could revolutionize understanding of how signal flow can be measured in the brain and could have an impact into the development of new artificial neural networks.

A new study reports a link between higher than average late life systolic blood pressure and higher number of tangles in Alzheimer's disease.

While it's unclear exactly why any given player may need to swig and spit, some players may be practicing what's known as "carb rinsing."

New Zealand scientists have performed the first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field of medical diagnostics, said Europe's CERN physics lab which contributed imaging tec...

Researchers from Michigan State University and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium.

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, has a singular role in the Standard Model of particle physics. Most notable is the Higgs boson's affinity to mass, which can be likened to the elect...

A pair of results bring neutrinos into the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. On September 22, 2017, a tiny but energetic particle pierced Earth's atmosphere and smashed into the planet near the Amundsen-Scott South P...