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Society is rife with fears about the future of AI. For some, like Richard Branson and Ray Dalio, it's AI's exacerbation of the wealth gap and the looming social crisis it could bring about. For others, it's privacy impli...

MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics that capture images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the optics, instead of the traditional approach that relies on the arrangement of optical compone...

Billions of years ago, uranium in the Earth's crust underwent nuclear reactions on its own, and the remnants demonstrate a way to keep nuclear waste under control

A new study reports amputees often feel as though their prosthetic limb is part of their body.

Lasers are widely used as high power sources of light operating at a specific frequency. But how does this frequency get selected when a laser is turned on, and how quickly?

A simple nip from a puppy may have led to a fatal infection for a Wisconsin woman, according to news reports.

The oldest rocks ever found are over four billion years old and we don't know how they formed - but a massive asteroid bombardment may be responsible

We've all been there - desperately holding on for a toilet. Now the brain cells that help us do it have been identified, which may lead to new incontinence treatments

A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water--a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed.

Seventeen days have passed since the grieving orca mother known as Tahlequah began pushing her dead calf around the waters in Puget Sound. And now, after doing so for 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), she's let go.

Vortices are common in nature, but their formation can be hampered by long range forces. In work recently published in Nature Materials, an international team of researchers has used mapped X-ray magnetic linear and circ...

Mitosis is a method of cell division in which a cell divides and produces identical copies of itself.

In the past century, superconductivity has been observed in thousands of substances with multifarious chemical compositions and crystal structures; however, researchers have still not found an explicit method for discove...

A study exploring the coupling between heat and particle currents in a gas of strongly interacting atoms highlights the fundamental role of quantum correlations in transport phenomena, breaks the Wiedemann-Franz law, and...

Firefighters fight to contain the several wildfires burning across California, including the state's largest fire on record, the Mendocino Complex Fire. Here's a look at some of the most dramatic scenes from the fires.

They're showing up in major population centers in the Great White North.

Our current model of internet security is too vulnerable to the mistakes of individual programmers. Better alternatives exist - and should be deployed

Hundreds of bizarre, tennis-ball-size critters washed up on a beach in Cornwall, England, this past weekend, surprising beachgoers, who didn't know what to make of the creatures, according to news sources.

A beautifully illustrated new book details the evolutionary path that created modern bees from their ancient wasp ancestors - and why the apians' future is uncertain

As death takes over, killing waves wash over a darkening cell.

Stone tools found around Easter Island's famous moai statues contradict the popular narrative of social collapse.

A little more than 200 million years ago, a four-fanged pterosaur flew over the vast desert of Triassic Utah snagging other reptiles with its toothy mouth, until it met its untimely end on the banks of a dried-up oasis, ...