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Model flu virus showing surface antigens BOTH "mini-epidemics" of seasonal flu, which happen most years, and much larger pandemics, of which 1918's was the worst example, are the result of an arms race between the influe...

Engineers at Duke University have developed a way to extract a sequence of images from light scattered through a mostly opaque material--or even off a wall--from one long photographic exposure. The technique has applicat...

Researchers say limiting children's access to screen time to two hours a day, in addition to physical activity and quality sleep, helps to improve cognitive development.

A new study reports women who are in their third trimester of pregnancy during months with less day light are at an increased risk of developing postnatal depression.

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used common electronicsto build a laser that pulses 100 times more often than conventional ultrafast lasers. The advance couldextend the benefi...

Ten of the 19 orca populations in the oceans could vanish within a century because of the effects of reproduction-disrupting PCB chemicals

Researchers have developed a new mathematical model, which incorporates EEG data and evolutionary game theory, that bridges the gap between waves and random fluctuations in the brain.

If you live in a part of the world with cold winters, you probably know the awful feeling that comes with an unexpectedly early frost or snow--one that covers your car in a layer of ice before you've pulled out your glov...

Here's the expert testimony excluded from the Kavanaugh hearing.

If any rock bands are looking for a cool name, they might draw inspiration from a newly identified long-necked Jurassic giant whose moniker means "a giant thunderclap at dawn."

Maybe they could call it the School of Space Rock: A new program being offered at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) will educate post-graduate students on the nuts and bolts of extracting and using valuable materials su...

ON JUNE 29th 1918 Martín Salazar, Spain's inspector-general of health, stood up in front of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Madrid. He declared, not without embarrassment, that the disease which was ravaging his countr...

Even though laser beams have no mass, they do have a tiny amount of gravity, which allows them to drag and warp space and slow down time as they propagate

Japanese landers on the asteroid Ryugu have sent back more stunning images and video of the alien landscape

States spying on the very organisations that challenge their surveillance power demonstrates how important such work is, says Privacy International's Edin Omanovic

A team at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has found a completely new way to generate extreme-ultraviolet emissions; that is, light having a wavelength of 10 to 120...

Conventional computers store information in a bit, a fundamental unit of logic that can take a value of 0 or 1. Quantum computers rely on quantum bits, also known as a "qubits," as their fundamental building blocks. Bits...

Three people in the UK have caught the tropical disease, a relative of smallpox, the first time there have been cases in this country. But the smallpox vaccine provides immunity.

The charges stem from statements Musk made on Aug. 7 indicating that he planned to take his publicly traded electric-car company, Tesla, private, according to the lawsuit, which was filed today (Sept. 27) in New York.

This Arctic lake is releasing so much methane that the air above it is flammable.

Junk-food lovers who try to cut back on fries or chocolate may experience symptoms similar to drug withdrawal, a new study suggests.

Researchers probe a mystery deep in the Earth's mantle.