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"If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately," writes the physicist Stephen Hawking in his posthumous book Brief Answers to the Big Questions. He was right. But he wa...

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) achieved a major breakthrough in shielding the quantum properties of single atoms on a surface. The scientists used the...

Researchers propose a new theory of human thinking, suggesting our brain's navigation system is key to thinking. This may explain why our knowledge seems to be organized in spatial fashion.

Researchers report facial recognition varies by where they appear in the visual field, and this variability is reduces through learning familiar faces via social interactions. The study reports repeated social interactio...

Autonomous vehicles can follow the general rules of American roads, recognizing traffic signals and lane markings, noticing crosswalks and other regular features of the streets. But they work only on well-marked roads th...

Researchers report when resting, people burn 10% more calories in the late afternoon and early evening than in the early morning hours.

A new study reveals a mechanistic link between zinc levels in fetal development, genes and abnormal neural connections associated with autism.

The source of some of Earth's first water may be gas left over from the sun's birth.

When it comes to healthcare disruption, technology is often at the center: wearables that track our biological stats, scanners that monitor our internal processes, or modulators that directly zap our brains into alternat...

Prehistoric sabre-toothed cats often injured their impressive jaws during hunts. Now fossil evidence suggests injured cats could rely on their peers for food

Environmental groups are being suppressed by Iran's radical regime , says Madani Kaveh

In the absence of strong scientific voices, conspiracy theories are peddled, says Madani Kaveh

Researchers have solves a longstanding mystery relating to perineuronal nets, giving rise to potential new treatments for epilepsy. The study reports the nets modulate electrical impulses in the brain and seizures can oc...

Officials with the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) have announced that at a meeting to be held next week, four of the base units used in the metric system will be redefined. The four units under review ...

Most physicists believe that the structure of spacetime is formed in an unknown way at the Planck scale, i.e., at a scale close to one trillionth of a trillionth of a metre. However, careful considerations undermine this...

What's happening in our brains when we feel a sense of awe?

An experimental "vaccine" for celiac disease is set to be tested in a new clinical trial.

Here's a look at the southernmost continent, a place of extremes.

Three chunky asteroids are zooming by Earth this weekend, and one of them is getting closer to our planet than the moon itself.

Will Fabiano Caruana of Brooklyn, New York, unseat the chess grandmaster?

Researchers thought there were large lakes under East Antarctica's Recovery Glacier. Now they can't find them.

Astronmers have found two new planets that don't have stars. They are incredibly difficult to spot, but there may be more of them in the Milky Way than stars