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The deep sea is full of weird undiscovered creatures. A foldable robotic grabber captures them gently without causing damage

Around 100 million years ago, this baby snake hatched on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean and then got stuck in resin oozing from a tree

Your everyday permanent markers, glue sticks and packing tape may offer a surprisingly low-tech solution to a long-standing nuisance in the manufacturing industry: Making soft and ductile, or so-called "gummy" metals eas...

From stadium lights to night lights, the modern way of life runs on artificial illumination. This lighting is costly--in both environmental and economic terms--but last week in the journal Optica, a team of researchers f...

For a long time, physicists have tried to understand the relationship between a periodic pattern of conduction electrons called a charge density wave (CDW), and another quantum order, superconductivity, or zero electrica...

The Michigan community of Flint has become a byword for lead poisoning. Elon Musk recently entered the fray.

Political footage faked by AI is talked about as an imminent threat to US democracy. There are good reasons to think it's not a big problem yet, says Tim Hwang

Again and again, we hear company founders complain in utter frustration that the larger they grow, the less they accomplish. "We built our first product in three weeks; now we can't ship a new feature in three months," t...

Artificial intelligence and robotics will displace up to 7 million jobs by 2037 - but will generate 7.2 million, leading to a net gain

For the first time, researchers have got evidence that dreams help soothe the impact of emotional events in our lives, acting like overnight therapy

Jesus' crucified body did not make the bloodstains seen on this holy cloth, scientists find.

The EU has fined Google 4.3 billion euros for using its Android mobile operating system to "cement its dominant market position in internet search"

The outer solar system hosts a number of small bodies in mixed up orbits - and they may have been scattered there by a passing star

A pair of physicists at Aix-Marseille University has offered a possible way to measure the speed of our own galaxy more accurately as it moves through space. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letter...

A report by consumer group Which? has warned that many toy slime products break European Union limits on borax, but a few precautions should keep people safe

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel's peak temp...

A team that includes nuclear physicists, a machine-learning researcher and an NC State mathematician has created a new approach for narrowing down huge calculations - such as those involved in quantum physics - by focusi...

A new study makes some alarming claims about a relationship between cured meat consumption and bipolar mania, but a lot more research is necessary.

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The city's water crisis shows the high cost of failing to adapt to climate change, as it ignored warnings that water demand would exceed supply

In the Amazon, when turtles weep, butterflies drink.

We are all in the midst of a new geological age, experts say.