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In the next 6 years, 4 billion "new minds" are about to be connected to the world wide web, at gigabit connection speeds, at near zero-cost. By 2024, we are connecting every person on Earth to the web with bandwidths far...

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm that could provide meaningful answers to condensed matter physicists in their searches for novel and emergent properties in materia...

Researchers say a novel enzyme treatment may reduce inflammation and scarring that prevents neural regeneration in spinal cord injury.

A new study reveals bile acids can reduce the rewarding properties of cocaine use.

Lead atoms with a single remaining electron circulated in the Large Hadron Collider. Protons might be the Large Hadron Collider's bread and butter, but that doesn't mean it can't crave more exotic tastes from time to tim...

Physicist and best-selling author Carlo Rovelli is coming to London this September to explain the deep mysteries of time

Will the weather cooperate for you to get a good look at Mars at its best during its closest approach this week?

Just because we'll never be able to give one sharp-eyed human a name doesn't mean there's nothing interesting to learn about the history of observing Mars.

Researchers have developed a new deep learning algorithm that can reveal your personality type, based on the Big Five personality trait model, by simply tracking eye movements.

The current heatwave in northern Europe was made twice as likely by climate change, according to a preliminary analysis.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neura...

In the early 1950s, a mysterious so-called dinosaur fossil sat on display in the village hall in Fukushima, Japan. But a new analysis of the ancient bone reveals that it belonged to a weird, hippo-like creature that live...

Strange as it may sound, bouncing liquid droplets are changing our ideas of what happens at subatomic levels. By studying their movement across pools of liquid, Prof. John Bush from MIT is discovering how these droplets ...

Nearly half of the human genome is composed of genetic parasites--transposons, plasmids, viruses, and other genetic elements that have one thing in common: they don't make any beneficial contributions to their hosts, and...

A new technique for quantum computing could bust open our whole model of how time moves in the universe.

An extremely rare cricket with female sex organs but male wings - known as a gynandromorph - could tell us more about how sex differences arise

Technion-Israel institute of Technology researchers have succeeded in generating minute "nano-hedgehogs of light" called optical skyrmions, which could make possible revolutionary advances in information processing, tran...

Fabric buried with two ancient Chilean mummies is to die for.

A face recognition service sold by Amazon falsely identified 28 members of Congress - and disproportionately black legislators - as people arrested for a crime

Here's what you should know about sleeping with a fan on at night.

No, the blood moon doesn't signal the apocalypse.

In collaboration with their colleagues from Germany and the Czech Republic, researchers from the Institute for Laser and Plasma Technologies at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) have developed a new...