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Researchers have found a way to accelerate antimatter in a 1000x smaller space than current accelerators, boosting the science of exotic particles.

UNTIL February, when the first of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy lifters was launched, the world's most powerful rocket was the Delta IV Heavy. On August 11th, if all goes according to plan, one of these will take off from Cape C...

Sensors developed under the DIADEMS project and capable of measuring magnetic fields with unprecedented accuracy are on the path to commercialisation. The technology has already spurred the creation of four start-ups.

Biologists have watched death spread across a living cell for the first time, and discovered that it travels in a steady wave in the same way that wildfires do

Yale-NUS Associate Professor of Science (Physics) Shaffique Adam is the lead author of a recent work that describes a model for electron interaction in Dirac materials, a class of materials that includes graphene and top...

Researchers shed light on the role the caudate nucleus plays in pessimism. The study reports stimulating this area of the brain generates a negative outlook that clouds decision making.

According to researchers, neuropsychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia could be a byproduct of evolution.

It's one of technology's hottest (and most elusive) goals for the 21st century: quantum computing. You've probably heard talk of these powerful machines, which have the potential to completely transform our computing cap...

Albert Einstein predicted that the speed of light does not change just because you are moving - and now two experiments have shown just how right he was

Non-native grasses such as cheatgrass are easier to ignite and can spread fires far more quickly than the native ones

You can grow into and out of allergies your whole life; they come in groups; women are more allergy prone... Wild ideas about allergies abound, but which should you believe?

VISION is useless in murky water. To deal with that deficiency dolphins have evolved sonar. They emit clicks and interpret the echoes to find their prey. But not all marine mammals are so equipped. Seals, for instance, h...

Good news for lemurs. Bad for millipedes MANY animals are herbalists. Pregnant elephants eat particular leaves to induce the births of their calves. Birds keep bloodsucking bugs at bay by weaving insect-repelling plants ...

If you were one of the first people to reach America after traveling over the Bering Strait land bridge during the last ice age, would you travel along the coast, or would you make the trip farther inland, between two ma...

The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has reached a new milestone by operating a complete neutron production run cycle at 1.3 megawatts.

An intrepid Symmetry writer and communicator at CERN navigates the landscape above the Large Hadron Collider by bicycle. The Swiss Plateau might look flat from above, but both the bird's-eye view and its name are deceivi...

Cyberattacks target not just our phones and laptops, but hospitals, schools and power stations. A new security solution redesigns chips from the inside out

Indonesia’s Lombok quake revives the question of taking cover versus running outside --

The Long Valley Caldera in east California unleashed a supervolcano eruption 760,000 years ago. Today it is quiet but it may have a few smaller eruptions left in it

A mother in Maryland says that eating a poppy seed bagel caused her to test positive for opiates while she was giving birth, according to news reports. But how does this happen?

Getting too little exercise is tied to an increased risk of cancer -- but according to a new study, most people in the U.S. don't know this.

No it's not a leaf or a long-lost kingdom of life. It's a funny, leaf-like animal.