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If non-conformists base their decisions on opposing the mainstream, why do they all look alike?

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund plans to sell its stocks in oil and gas exploration firms, which is the biggest divestment of its kind yet

As if being picked on wasn't bad enough, victims of workplace mistreatment may also be seen as bullies themselves, even if they've never engaged in such behavior.

The proposed successor to the LHC would try to solve some of physics’s biggest mysteries by slamming matter into antimatter head-on to generate the famed Higgs boson --

Like a rainbow, the anus of a comb jelly is a fleeting thing.

A listener's engagement decreases with repetition of music, but only for familiar music pieces. However, unfamiliar musical styles can sustain an audience's interest, in particular for individuals with some musical train...

Brazilian scientists produce brain organoids with primitive eyes using computational fluid dynamics.

Amateur ornithologists who describe themselves as experts are far more likely to mistake common British birds for obscure rarities never seen in the UK

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 a.m. EST about 230 miles off the Florida coast.

These marine mammals look like killer whales but smaller, with smaller patches above their eyes and pointier dorsal fins. What are these posers

Researchers have harnessed the latest nanofabrication techniques to create bug-shaped robots that are wirelessly powered, able to walk, able to survive harsh environments and tiny enough to be injected through an ordinar...

By 2040, about two-thirds of the world's population will be concentrated in urban centers. Over the decades ahead, 90 percent of this urban population growth is predicted to flourish across Asia and Africa. Already, 1,00...

Japan is edging towards building a "Higgs factory" - a massive particle collider that would produce large numbers of Higgs bosons

Some species of Euglenids, a diversified family of aquatic unicellular organisms, can perform large-amplitude, elegantly coordinated body deformations. Although this behavior has been known for centuries, its function is...

These mesmerizing images of stars are truly stellar.

Get ready to "spring forward" as people throughout the United States lose an hour of sleep early Sunday morning.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a quantum circuit to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. This new quantum circuit opens the door to possible future applications in ...

Researchers of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have developed a microscope that tracks the motion of electrons.

SINE2020 and the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France have collaborated to produce a motion design video highlighting how small angle neutron scattering (SANS) can be used to track the description, distribution, a...

Scientists of the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, detected the magnetic states of atoms on a surface using only heat. The respective study is published in a recent volume of Science. A magnet...

Bacteria, plants, insects and fish use antifreeze proteins to protect themselves from the cold. The proteins block the growth of ice crystals. In a new study, a German-Israeli research team has confirmed that these prote...

The first black woman to go to space, Mae Jemison is now leading an effort to develop the capability for interstellar travel