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It recognizes our faces. It knows the videos we might like. And it can even, perhaps, recommend the best course of action to take to maximize our personal health. Artificial intelligence and its subset of disciplines--su...

(RMIT University) High quality cutting tools can now be 3D printed, potentially saving time and money for aerospace and Defence manufacturers.

Analyzing ripples in the fabric of space and time created by pairs of dead stars may soon solve a cosmic mystery surrounding how quickly the universe is expanding -- if scientists are lucky.

Study reinforces and explains the links between sleep deprivation and neurodegenerative diseases, researchers say.

Researchers have identified the first common genetic risk variants for ASD. The study, which also reveals specific genetics differences in clinical subgroups of autism, may help in providing more precise diagnoses for th...

New research reveals that pairs of protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei influence the speed of quarks passing through --

A new type of microscope may give doctors a better idea of how safely and effectively a medication will perform in the body.

Lacing mosquito nets with antimalarial drugs could help prevent the spread of malaria in humans, as mosquitoes become resistant to insecticides

Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without the addition of inks or dyes.

One of the key concepts in quantum physics is entanglement, in which two or more quantum systems become so inextricably linked that their collective state can't be determined by observing each element individually. Now Y...

In a major step forward for an area of research that earned the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, an international team has found that substances with exotic electronic behaviors called topological materials are in fact quite...

A Nobel laureate, a comedian and a cast of chemists share their favourite elements, from a signature of alien life to a source of comic book superpower

Your genome literally identifies you, but researchers and genetic firms keep saying that DNA data is anonymous. It's a privacy scandal waiting to happen

Advances in electron microscopy - using electrons as imaging tools to see things well beyond the reach of conventional microscopes that use light - have opened up a new window into the nanoscale world and brought a wide ...

Organ donation in England will take place on an opt-out basis from next year, now that a new law has been passed by MPs. But its effects on donation rates may be being overstated, finds Clare Wilson

Conch graveyards and incredible mineral growths abound

A team at the University of Oxford has found a technique to move liquid through a small channel without using a driving force. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes their te...

When scientists examine very small and swift objects they see the laws of physics working wildly differently than in the everyday "normal-sized" world.

How did a humpback whale get stranded in the Amazon?

A man got a completely unexpected diagnosis after he told his doctors that for the past two years, his left nostril had been stuffy, drippy and losing its ability to smell.

A giant, unfinished ram-headed sphinx has been found in a quarry site near the Nile.

For 118 elements, the trends of the periodic table have held reasonably well. But we might soon make atoms so huge they break all the rules