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Scientists have discovered the remarkable impact of reversing a standard method for combatting a key obstacle to producing fusion energy on Earth. Theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physi...

During the embryonic stage, tactile information simultaneously activated the tactile and visual neural pathways. After birth, the pathways separate and reorganize to allow for individual processing of visual and tactile ...

A series of new studies investigate how genetics affect the development and symptoms of autism.

Researchers have identified multiple new risk genes for Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

For the first time, a speedcuber has demonstrated a solution to the Rubik's cube that combines the two final steps of the puzzle's solution into one

Authorities have linked the discovery of a foot inside a shoe to a previously unreported death in Yellowstone National Park on July 31.

Protons can contain a charm quark, an elementary particle 1.5 times heavier than the proton itself.

When it goes online, the MAGIS-100 experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and its successors will explore the nature of gravitational waves and search for certain kinds of wavelike...

For decades, physicists and researchers from around the globe have flocked to the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility to unlock the subatomic mysteries of how the universe works.

A proposal for a computer built using liquid crystals - similar to those found in LCD TVs - would use the orientation of the molecules to store data. Calculations would look like ripples through the liquid

A spike in global temperatures could have been the trigger for the rise of reptiles towards the end of the Permian Period, not a mass extinction of mammals as had been thought

Archaeologists have found one Stone Age and 140 early medieval graves filled with artifacts in Germany.

Cramming multiple pairs of shoes into a vacation suitcase, twisting and flipping them into different arrangements to fit every pair needed, is a familiar optimization problem faced by harried travelers. This same problem...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a compact multi-petawatt laser that uses plasma transmission gratings to overcome the power limitations of conventional solid-state optical gratings...

What's the difference between aerobic vs anaerobic exercise? We speak to a physiologist to find out.

A child in Nebraska has died of a likely infection with Naegleria fowleri, popularly known as a brain-eating amoeba.

The moons Europa and Enceladus probably have global oceans buried beneath their frozen shells, and those seas may be home to a strange kind of ice called frazil ice

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made progress in the preparation of mixture-based quarter-wave plate laser beam splitter (PLBS) coatings to imp...

Metallic glass is an important advanced alloy, holding promise for broad engineering applications. It appears as a solid form in many aspects, with beautiful metal appearance, exceeding elasticity, high strength, and a d...

A new kind of "phase transition" in water was first proposed 30 years ago in a study by researchers from Boston University. Because the transition has been predicted to occur at supercooled conditions, however, confirmin...

Ah flying cars, elusive symbol of the future. They're a cool, exciting idea that's technologically feasible, yet always just a few years away. Yet talk of flying cars--be they air taxis, driving drones, or personal eVTOL...

Many Pokémon designs are inspired by well-known animals, but these Pokémon are based on surprising creatures that not everyone has heard of.