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Lightning was the main electromagnetic presence in the Earth's atmosphere long before the invention of electricity. There are some 2,000 thunderstorms active at any given time, so humans and other organisms have been bat...

Our eyes are only attuned to a narrow band of possible wavelengths for electromagnetic radiation, between around 390-700 nanometers. If you could see the world in different wavelengths, you'd be aware that, in a built-up...

A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida and Michigan Technological University has developed a laser system concept built on the principles of supersymmetry. In their paper published in the journal Sc...

A new study reports neurons in the somatosensory cortex respond differently to various features of a surface, creating a high dimensional representation of texture in the brain. The findings could help develop neuroprost...

A research team comprised of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Washington has for the first time directly imaged "edge conduction" in monolayer tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2, a ...

Quantum physics sets the laws that dominate the universe at a small scale. The ability to harness quantum phenomena could lead to machines like quantum computers, which are predicted to perform certain calculations much ...

A sharp sword lodged deep within a sewer recently caught the eye of a pipe layer and an engineer working in Aalborg, Denmark.

The king of the dinosaurs was a famed carnivore, but its diet of plant-eaters may have helped T. rex disperse fruit seeds over a wide area

Fluffy is one tough cat.

A team led by University of Utah physicists has discovered how to fix a major problem that occurs in lasers made from a new type of material called quantum dots. The never-before-seen phenomenon will be important for an ...

Here's a look at the finalists for a Sony photo contest.

The World Photography Organisation has announced the shortlist of finalists for its annual Natural World & Wildlife competition.

Sound and light are crucial for our life and are essential in many energy, communication and information technologies. Their interaction allows many fundamental observations in physics, from the detection of cosmic gravi...

This ancient ice stream was comparable to those found in Antarctica today

300 million years ago, Namibia was covered in ice. Now, we see traces of it.

Today's Google doodle celebrates Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who was the first to isolate caffeine and quinine but his contributions to chemistry are often overlooked

The Europeans killed so many indigenous Americans during the 16th century -- through warfare and by causing disease and famine -- that it actually cooled the planet during the Little Ice Age, a new study suggests.

The old adage doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny.

The botched launch of two Galileo navigation probes made for an unexpected experiment --

The most robust trial of universal basic income yet shows that it boosts well-being and doesn't decrease employment, as some had feared

Weeks after a hotspot for anti-vaxxers turned into a hotspot for measles infections, it became a hotspot for vaccination

Measles is highly contagious, which makes it difficult to eradicate.