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As the master code of life, DNA can do a lot of things. Inheritance. Gene therapy. Wipe out an entire species. Solve logic problems. Recognize your sloppy handwriting. Wait, What? In a brilliant study published in Nature...

These exhausted flyers are running out of time.

From flying broomsticks to floating cities and container-less storage, levitation has a tendency to capture the imagination. Among the impractical and impossible ideas, there are some good ones that have already taken ho...

At our festival of science this September, Nick Davis will be exploring how we can make our brains work better - and whether we know what we're getting ourselves into

A new study reports gaining expertise with symbolic math refines the primal system of quantity representation in the brain, not the other way around.

Researchers discover differences in the brain's emotional networks between those who do not meditate, novice meditators and those who have practiced meditation for a long time.

Archaeologists digging in a 400-year-old church in Jamestown, Virginia, have found a headless body that might be that of Sir George Yeardley, one of the first politicians -- and slave owners -- in the American colonies.

Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.

Humans need much more information to study a problem backwards in time than forwards, but a quantum computer can ignore the flow of time all together

Fermilab's accelerator complex has achieved a major milestone: The U.S. Department of Energy formally approved Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to proceed with its design of PIP-II, an accelerator upgrade project th...

An international group of researchers has achieved the world's first multi-qubit demonstration of a quantum chemistry calculation performed on a system of trapped ions, one of the leading hardware platforms in the race t...

Modern communication systems often employ optical fibers to carry signals across or between devices. The integrated optics in these devices combine more than one function into a single circuit. However, signal transmissi...

Most mammals shun the painful heat in spicy chili peppers, but not the Chinese tree shrew.

A high-precision experiment led by TU Wien has set its sights on pinpointing the so-far hypothetical "symmetron fields" using the PF2 ultra-cold neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin in France. For the existence o...

Following similar decisions in Scotland and Wales, boys in England will now be offered the HPV vaccine, which protects against several types of cancer

The dam in Laos has collapsed, releasing large amounts of water and sweeping away houses and leaving more than 6000 homeless

Researchers at ETH have made a nanoparticle turn around its own axis a billion times per second. From such measurements of rotating particles, the scientists hope to obtain new insights into the behaviour of materials un...

Thermodynamics is one of the most human of scientific enterprises, according to Kater Murch, associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Fermilab's Lia Merminga talks to Symmetry about her early experiences in STEM and her drive to solve science's unanswered questions. Lia Merminga At just 16 years old, inspired by family members, a great teacher and a bo...

Deadly heatwaves could continue for weeks, and possibly months, across much of the northern hemisphere, meteorologists predicted this week

A key challenge in the embryonic development of complex life forms is the correct specification of cell positions so that organs and limbs grow in the right places. To understand how cells arrange themselves at the earli...

Like small-scale Legos clicking into place, nature autonomously puts together microscopic building blocks. Living systems are biochemical machines that excel at building and moving their parts. Just as machines need ener...