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Stingrays are an instantly recognizable fish. The graceful swimmers glide through the water by undulating the edges of their flat, pancake-like bodies.

The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2, to transform matter into energy and then back into different forms of matter. But on rare occasions, it can skip the first step and collide...

The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in history. This is particularly true of solar-powered electricity and battery storage. The cost of b...

In response to proposed laws requiring payment to news publishers, Facebook says it will ban Australian users sharing news content, which may be a test case for global regulation to follow

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Scientists from Regensburg and Zurich have found a fascinating way to push an atom with controlled forces so quickly that they can choreograph the motion of a single molecule within less than a trillionth of a second. Th...

The moon is turning ever so slightly red, and it's likely Earth's fault.

Prosocial behavior is good for people's health and wellbeing, but not all altruistic acts are equally beneficial for the giver.

SpaceX is testing the use of space lasers to transfer data between its Starlink satellites, which the firm says can provide internet connections fast enough for HD streaming

Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors. Now Penn State researchers have added a small amount of background noise to enhance very weak signa...

Study reveals how sleep deprivation can greatly affect soldiers on the battlefield.

Too much methionine in-vitro caused schizophrenia in mice, regardless of the level of postpartum care. Researchers suggest the same outcome would be true for humans.

A rare look at a three-star solar system reveals wobbly disks of dust that may host a young, three-sunned planet.

Botanists are teaming up with forensic anthropologists to work out whether there are detectable changes in the appearance of trees and shrubs growing near decomposing bodies

A new two-stage model seeks to answer a longstanding philosophical debate over whether consciousness is continuous or discrete. Findings suggest discrete consciousness is preceded by a long-lasting unconscious processing...

Researchers have developed a new CMOS-compatible silicon photonics photon source that satisfies all the requirements necessary for large-scale photonic quantum computing. The research represents a significant step toward...

Denis Rebrikov says he is planning to use CRISPR gene editing to prevent children inheriting deafness, despite a major report concluding it is not yet safe enough to try

Professor Wang Jian at Peking University and collaborators investigated the superconducting properties of two-dimensional crystalline superconducting PdTe2 films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. They observed the experim...

Scientists have discovered why naked mole rats have poor hearing and they suggest the finding could be used to understand and model some forms of human deafness

Physicians are chasing treatment for children with a dangerous COVID-19 syndrome called multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

"One more centimeter," said the chief technician, while operating the hydraulic jack system on 14 August. The 5-m-diameter, 5-m-long cylindrical detector gently slid into the parking position, 56 meters below the ground ...

A team of researchers from Institut Langevin and Sorbonne Université has shown that it is possible to float boats on both the top and underside of a suspended fluid. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the g...