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Imagine a map of every single star in an entire galaxy. A map so detailed that it lays out what each star looks like, what they're made of, and how each star is connected to another through the grand physical laws of the...

Mixing liquids is easy, or at least scientifically understood: a drop of food coloring will eventually mix into a cup of water through diffusion, and a dollop of cream can be mixed into coffee with a spoon through what i...

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as "whistlers"--very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic field lines. This first...

Can a chemical that reinforces the connections in our brains prevent the destruction of memories in ageing and Alzheimer's? It seems to work in mice

Studying the exomes of 6,000 Alzheimer's patients and 5,000 without the disease, researchers have identified new rare variations in genes that may contribute to dementia.

Researchers report the greater conversational turn taking between adults and children, the stronger the connections are between the Wernicke's area and Broca's area in the child's brain.

Snap a piece of dry spaghetti and you will always end up with three or more pieces - but now mathematicians have figured out how to get a single clean break

A new study reveals a link between sleep deprivation and heightened feelings of social isolation. Researchers report sleep loss blunts activity in the brain that normally encourages social engagement.

A year after detecting a neutron star collision, scientists are excited for the future of multi-messenger astronomy and astrophysics. There's a large subset of astronomers and astrophysicists who remember where they were...

It will never be possible to forecast weather years ahead, but we can predict the average global temperature four years from now. Trouble is, that's not that useful

There's a massive underwater landform creating extreme surfing conditions in Portugal.

Agrichemical firm Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million to a man who says its products caused his cancer - but scientific evidence for links to cancer is lacking

Police in Orlando have been testing a system that automatically scans CCTV looking for potentially illicit activity - with some success

Researchers report estrogen and other sex hormones may be responsible for the higher prevalence of migraines in women.

A new type of pressure sensor based on light could allow the creation of sensitive artificial skins to give robots a better sense of touch, wearable blood-pressure monitors for humans and optically transparent touch scre...

A new uncertainty relation, linking the precision with which temperature can be measured and quantum mechanics, has been discovered at the University of Exeter.

Google records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to, an investigation by the Associated Press has found

DeepMind's system trains on eye scan data taken from thousands of NHS patients and determines which should be seen sooner

Astrophysicists have piled up observations that are difficult to explain with dark matter. It is time to consider that there may be more to gravity than Einstein taught us --

A team of researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Washington University has learned more about possible ways to store modern nuclear waste by studying an ancient natural fission reactor. In their paper pu...

A kiwi physicist has discovered the energy difference between two quantum states in the helium atom with unprecedented accuracy, a ground-breaking discovery that contributes to our understanding of the universe and space...

A treasure box discovery for the digital age.