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Firing a laser at a pair of black holes can produce more energy than you start with, letting you travel the galaxy without needing a large amount of fuel

Neurofeedback can be used to modify a person's state of arousal in order to improve performance in sensory motor tasks, biomedical engineers report.

Researchers report trigeminal nerve stimulation, administered during sleep, is both effective and safe for treating ADHD in children. The study reveals the treatment helps to reduce behavioral symptoms of ADHD and increa...

Human activities, like farming and building roads, is impacting a quarter of the world's vulnerable vertebrate species

Whether zipping through a star or a fusion device on Earth, the electrically charged particles that make up the fourth state of matter better known as plasma are bound to magnetic field lines like beads on a string. Unfo...

A new species of frog discovered on the forest floor in India's Western Ghat mountain range is the only member of an ancient lineage stretching back millions of years

Science writer Sibusiso Biyela aims to bring science back to South Africa's Zulu communities. South Africa will be one of the homes of the Square Kilometer Array Project, an international effort to build the world's larg...

Silicon transistors and the brain don't mix. At least not optimally. As scientists and companies are increasingly exploring ways to interface your brain with computers, fashioning new hardware that conforms to and compli...

Researchers at the University of Michigan and City University of New York have recently proposed and experimentally validated a transparent, electronically tunable metasurface. This metasurface, presented in a paper publ...

A study claims that air pollution causes 9 million "extra" deaths worldwide each year, including 800,000 in Europe - which is double previous estimates

Physicists at Saarland University have developed magnetic field sensors that are breaking sensitivity records and opening up a whole range of potential new applications, from non-contact measurements of the electrical ac...

A team of University of Maryland bioengineering researchers have developed a microscopy technique that could one day be used to improve LASIK and eliminate the "surgery" aspect of the procedure. Their findings were publi...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a form of ketamine for use in treatment-resistant depression. While there are unknowns, it is a welcome move, says Celia Morgan

Young YouTube viewers have a 45 per cent chance of reaching inappropriate content within 10 clicks of a single child-oriented video

A new 50p coin will memorialise Stephen Hawking, who died last year, while paying respect to his groundbreaking research on black holes

A man in England has sworn off cleaning his ears with a cotton swabs after developing a potentially life-threatening infection.

It's too hot to sit still

A sleeping octopus was caught on video changing color as it slept. Was it dreaming?

The rise of new species during the Cambrian may have been more like a wave than an explosion.

The West thinks China's internet is all about firewalls and censorship, but as a new book shows, the battle for control is full of dubious motives

Shopping mall standby Claire's is voluntarily recalling three of its makeup products due to the possible presence of asbestos fibers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today (March. 12).

In some cases, a woman's genes may put her at risk for an unplanned pregnancy even while using hormonal birth control properly.