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With the help of computer simulations, particle physics researchers may be able to explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe. The simulations offer a new way of examining conditions after the Big B...

Inspiration for game-changing science can seemingly come from anywhere. A moldy bacterial plate gave us the first antibiotic, penicillin. Zapping yeast with a platinum electrode led to a powerful chemotherapy drug, cispl...

A new method for learning the structures of small molecules, such as hormones, is 'like science fiction.'

The fifth-leading risk factor for mortality worldwide, air pollution presents a major heart health risk. A simple intervention could help people breathe easier at home.

Hands-Only CPR training kiosks are becoming more widespread and are an effective training tool, a new analysis finds.

Old age is the greatest risk factor for many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer. Geroprotectors are a recently identified class of anti-aging compounds. New research has now identified a unique subcl...

Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional ben...

Scientists paired drug-delivering nanoparticles like dance partners to reveal that molecules attach to targets on cells differently based upon their position in time. The discovery could improve methods for screening dru...

Even if governments step up action on energy, fossil fuel consumption will keep growing for at least another 20 years according to a major new report

Researchers confirm two long standing theories to be correct, the Empathizing-Systemizing theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism.

Research by Pierre Lucas could lead to computer memories that work more like human memories.

A new study reveals unique functional brain networks associated with characteristic behaviors of ASD in infants at risk of developing autism.

A new neuroimaging study reveals the brains of teenage girls who self harm show similar features to adults with borderline personality disorder.

A defence firm has unveiled a prototype quantum radar. If it works, it could use entangled protons to locate stealth aircraft that normally avoid detection

Months of observations have shown that the strange explosion in space called "the Cow" gets extra power from within, making it a new type of celestial event

Bioengineers have combined a virus that infects moths with magnetic nanoparticles to create a potential new therapy for inherited genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy, sickle cell, cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular at...

Scientists have succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles. They have developed so-called ''upconverting'' nanoparticles that not only convert infr...

Machine learning is increasing the pace of development of customised carbon surfaces with a wide variety of applications.

A new map reveals the ancient precursors to Antarctica.

North Korea's missile program has not actually been dismantled, according to a report published this weekend.

Positrons are short-lived subatomic particle with the same mass as electrons and a positive charge. They are used in medicine, e.g. in positron emission tomography (PET), a diagnostic imaging method for metabolic disorde...

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe. On March 29, 1979, high in the Quinlan Mountains in the Tohono O'odham Nation in so...