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NEGATIVE RESULTS are rarely reported widely. But they can be important. And this week sees one such--the possible demolition of what had been thought to be a sign of dark matter. Twenty years ago results from DAMA, a par...

An electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, emitted by a nuclear weapon exploded high above the United States could disable the electronic circuits of many devices vital to military defense and modern living.

Facebook used to "move fast and break things", but now everything is broken. Here's what governments can do to reign in the tech giants

Researchers report older adults who take up drawing are better able to retain new information than those who write notes.

For the first time, a University of Michigan chemist has used quantum entanglement to examine protein structures, a process that requires only a very small number of photons of light.

A machine learning system called AlphaZero is the first AI that can learn to master more than one game using the same algorithm - it can play Go, chess and shogi

It's easy to make bubbles, but try making hundreds of thousands of them a minute--all the same size.

A new study provides insight into how certain chemotherapy drugs affect brain cells. The study also identified a potential new treatment for "chemo brain."

A skeleton found decades ago in South Africa may be a new species of Australopithecus, and could help reveal when our ancestors evolved to walk on two feet

In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Like humans, parrots have big brains and good communication skills - now we know the DNA regulating parrot and human brain development evolved in a similar way

House geckos are too big to float using surface tension, and too small to create enough force to walk across water, so they use a combination of these tricks

IN 1988 A world emboldened by the eradication of smallpox set its cross-hairs on polio. The aim was to enter the new millennium without this crippling virus. But the battle drags on. On November 30th an emergency committ...

Ultrafast video capture of droplet cloud formation should help minimize the risk of gas-leak explosions.

Every year, for just a few days in a major city, a small team of roboticists get to live the dream: ordering around their own personal robot butlers. In carefully-constructed replicas of a restaurant scene or a domestic ...

The news of gene-edited twins is more likely to have a chilling effect on research into the technique used than to open the floodgates to millions more edited babies

What do you give a physicist who helped discover a fundamental particle and jump-started your science career? When Evan Coleman was wrapping up his undergraduate studies in physics at Brown University, he wanted to find ...

In the world of quantum computing, interaction is everything.

U.S. government funding is needed to sustain the arduous journey toward a practical quantum computer, experts say --

High-temperature superconductors can transport electrical energy without resistance. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have carried out high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering and have found that ...

Churning, hellish, hot-cold gas storms swirl around our universe's supermassive black holes. But the scientists involved in discovering them would prefer you call them "fountains."

A common virus that typically causes only mild symptoms in adults might lead to heart defects in developing human fetuses