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Eastern mosquitofish, a problem invasive species, can be prevented from reproducing using a robot fish that they find scary

The vaccine targets so-called senescent cells, which accumulate with age.

Seven years of concerted action to slow the spread of Oak Processionary Moth have failed to stop its consistent outward expansion from London

Climate change that led to sea level rise and severe coastal flooding could explain why the Vikings abandoned their Greenland settlements.

Researchers at QuTech--a collaboration between the TU Delft and TNO--have reached a milestone in quantum error correction. They have integrated high-fidelity operations on encoded quantum data with a scalable scheme for ...

A new meta-analysis examines the ability of cannabis plants to absorb heavy metals and discusses the resulting health impacts on consumers.

Artificial intelligence can predict which people who attend memory clinics will develop dementia within two years with 92 per cent accuracy, a largescale new study has concluded. Using data from more than 15,300 patients...

Radiative cooling means ordinary windows are not very effective at keeping buildings warm or cool as required, but modified windows could help save energy

Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. Here's a look at what flat-earthers believe and why.

The millipede has over 1,300 legs and was found deep underneath Western Australia.

A millipede with 1306 legs has smashed the world record after being discovered 60 metres underground in Australia

The Faroe Islands sit between Iceland, Norway and Great Britain, and were thought to have been first populated by the Vikings around AD 800, but new evidence suggests it may have been Britons in AD 500

As people around the world travel more and receive more formal education, languages are predicted to vanish at an alarming rate

Theropod dinosaurs, including carnivores like T. rex and herbivores like Therizinosaurus, evolved deeper and stronger jaws over the course of the dinosaur age

Unlike the jumble of frequencies produced by the light that surrounds us in daily life, each frequency of light in a specialized light source known as a "soliton" frequency comb oscillates in unison, generating solitary ...

Previous discoveries of water on Mars were limited to the poles or deep underground, but water deposits spotted near the surface at the equator could be easily accessed by future astronauts

The technologies behind one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the century--the detection of gravitational waves--are now being used in the long-standing search for dark matter.

For more than 100 years, Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity has been our best description of how the force of gravity acts throughout the universe. General relativity is not only very accurate, but ask any as...

A team led by Prof. Dr. Tobias Schätz, Professor of Atomic and Quantum Physics at the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg, Dr. Pascal Weckesser, Fabian Thielemann and colleagues, demonstrate magnetic Fesh...

Gold mining in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira would drive deforestation and increase mercury pollution, say ecologists

A team modeled plasma turbulence on the nation's fastest supercomputer to better understand plasma behavior

The next generation of superconducting magnets has the potential to revolutionize fields such as energy storage, particle accelerators and medicine. The magic behind these tools lies in the high-temperature superconducti...