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This odd behavior was previously unknown in black holes.

Bill Fairbank is looking for... nothing.

LIGO and Virgo observatories have spotted ripples from what could be the first-ever detection of this long-sought event --

Electric cars have developed a reputation as the ultimate status symbol of the champagne environmentalist, but that could be very close to changing. New research from BloombergNEF says they could be cheaper than combusti...

A glacier is on its deathbed, and this newly formed lake is the proof.

(Chalmers University of Technology) To meet the demands of an electric future, new battery technologies will be essential. One option is lithium sulfur batteries, which offer a theoretical energy density more than five t...

Hippocampal replay selectively enhances memory of highly rewarded locations in a familiar context.

Listening to music was associated with improvements in memory and cognition while participating in mindfulness improved mood in patients who recently suffered an ischemic stroke. Researchers believe combining the two app...

Autism diagnosis becomes stable starting at 14 months of age, researchers report. The accurate diagnosis of ASD, four months earlier than previously believed, leads to more opportunities for early interventions.

Researchers have used 3-D printing to make an inexpensive and portable high-resolution microscope that is small and robust enough to use in the field or at the bedside. The high-resolution 3-D images provided by the inst...

Black holes normally emit jets of material from their poles, but astronomers have spotted one with wonky jets due to its unusually fast meal

The surface of Saturn's moon Titan is mostly coated in a thick layer of sediment, but it has a long corridor of bare ice that is proving difficult to explain

The moon's makeup is extremely similar to Earth's - perhaps because a huge rock smashed into a magma-covered Earth, splashing out the material to make the moon

One in eleven people in a village in India is a twin. Though nobody knows the underlying causes, cousin marriage and disease epidemics have now been ruled out

Researchers have identified a new autoimmune disease that causes muscle pain and weakness. Large-histiocyte-related immune myopathy (LHIM), generates similar results to the condition rhabdomyolysis in blood chemistry sam...

The resignation of shale gas commissioner Natascha Engel over earthquake rules is far from the only reason to think fracking's prospects are bleak in the UK

Scientific American's chief features editor Seth Fletcher talks about his book Einstein's Shadow, an account of the long effort to image a black hole that recently came to fruition. --

Deficiencies in the SHANK3 gene have been linked to sleep disruptions in both mouse models and people with ASD. Researchers found patients with Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a genetic disorder associated with autism, report ...

Norwegian fishermen were approached by a beluga whale wearing a harness with "Equipment of St Petersburg" printed on the inside

Feral cats are driving many Australian species to the brink of extinction, and the government is stepping in.

Like memory in conventional computers, quantum memory components are essential for quantum computers--a new generation of data processors that exploit quantum mechanics and can overcome the limitations of classical compu...

Volkmar Dierolf and an international team demonstrate the possibility of tuning the color of a GaN LED by changing the time sequence at which the operation current is provided to the device.