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A fleet of autonomous, AI-powered submarines is headed into hotly-contested Asian waterways. The vehicles will belong to the Chinese armed forces, and their mission capabilities are likely to raise concerned eyebrows in ...

Liver tissue and muscle fibre are going to be grown on the ISS, to see if we can one day grow human organs in space

A UNSW study published this week resolves key challenges in creation of hole-based artificial atoms, with excellent potential for more-stable, faster, more scalable quantum computing.

Researchers have shown how to shuttle lithium ions back and forth into the crystal structure of a quantum material, representing a new avenue for research and potential applications in batteries, "smart windows" and brai...

Birth control app Natural Cycles has come under fire for unwanted pregnancies, but this just reveals how little we understand contraception

They may compete from the comfort of a chair, but video gamers are in the mix at this year's Asian games and are on track for Olympic stardom, says Mark Zastrow

Where objects appear in a person's visual field can affect the ability to determine what the object is, researchers say.

Researchers have identified specific brain networks that helps us associate objects with their names. The study sheds light on how the brain connects meaning to words and could help explain why people with neurodegenerat...

In case you missed it, last month NASA announced the discovery of what looks like liquid water on Mars: a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) wide lake hiding under 1.5 km (~1 mile) of ice. A lake 20 kilometers across sounds like a...

Finally, scientists have done the impossible.

A new study reports that while listening to music, brain activity becomes synchronized to the rhythmic structure of the sound, specifically the frequency of the beat.

Nanosized magnetic particles called skyrmions are considered highly promising candidates for new data storage and information technologies. Now, physicists have revealed new behavior involving the antiparticle equivalent...

Philosophers have debated the nature of "nothing" for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about it? In an interview with The Conversation, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Co...

According to University of Illinois physicist Douglas H. Beck, "Neutrons play some unusual roles in our world. Free neutrons decay in about 900 s but, bound in nuclei, they are stable and make up somewhat more than half ...

A trio of physicists with Columbia University is making waves with a new theory about phonons--they suggest they might have negative mass, and because of that, have negative gravity. Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky an...

The strange radio bursts usually circle the Earth like electromagnetic ghosts, but scientists have now created and studied their shapes in a plasma chamber on Earth.

The world’s most powerful particle collider has yet to turn up new physics—now some physicists are turning to a different strategy --

A striking painting called "The Host" is based on the artist's personal experience with a parasitic worm that he discovered in his eye.

These seahorses are tiny, active and playful.

Fields laden with cropmarks serve as a map for archeological finds.

Dry conditions have revealed unknown archaeological sites hidden beneath England's fields.

Teams in Washington and Canada are working together to save Scarlet, a starving 3-year-old killer whale.