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A trio of enormous asteroids, including two 'potentially hazardous' ones, will cross Earth's orbit around the sun this week, according to NASA. Here's what that means.

A joint paper by the Department of Computational Physics and Modeling of Physical Processes and Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences published in the journal Materials introduces an algorithm...

While not primarily useful for telling the time, nuclear clocks could allow scientists to test humankind's fundamental understanding of how reality works.

The first simulation of a wormhole on a quantum computer made headlines, but a new study brings into question whether it was an accurate representation

A study suggests that just one night of sleep deprivation may be linked to structural changes in the brain, similar to those seen in aging.

Physicists report new evidence that production of an exotic state of matter in collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)--an atom-smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven ...

Researchers in Caltech's Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering have made a major step forward in medical imaging by taking inspiration from the field of astronomy.

A laser pulse surfing in the wake of an electron beam pulse could get upshifted from visible to extreme ultraviolet light, simulations done at the University of Michigan have shown.

In a discovery that could have important implications for low-power computer memory, RIKEN researchers have shown that an entire sample can be switched between different magnetic states, or phases, simply by applying an ...

The sweetener, called erythritol, caused blood clots in mice and and is linked with higher numbers of deaths in people

A walrus that visited the south and east coasts of England in December has now been spotted on a floating pier in east Iceland

The skull of a medieval Lombard woman found in central Italy shows signs of having undergone two trepanations -- surgeries to make holes in the head. But why she underwent the painful procedures is unknown.

There are growing fears around the impact automation could have on jobs, but there's been much less focus on how it could impact unpaid labor. New research suggests close to half of the time-consuming domestic work peopl...

Atomic nuclei take a range of shapes, from spherical (like a basketball) to deformed (like an American football). Spherical nuclei are often described by the motion of a small fraction of the protons and neutrons, while ...

Hot gases composed of metal ions and electrons, called plasmas, are widely used in many manufacturing processes, chemical synthesis, and metal extraction from ores and welding. A collaborative research group from Tohoku ...

The Coros Pace 2 is a great entry level fitness tracker for runners.

Science suggests the answer is "yes".

The number of cold-stunned sea turtles washing up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts has increased from dozens to hundreds within four decades

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, were seen as far south as Cornwall in the UK on Sunday night, and are likely to be visible again on Monday night. Here is how to spot them, says Stargazing at Home columnist Abiga...

Inside All About History 127: Uncover the reign of Catherine the Great and the truth about her 'enlightened despotism'.

Four NASA astronauts were scheduled to set off for the International Space Station this morning on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission but engineers detected a fault on their rocket

A system that breaks down so-called forever chemicals with extreme heat and pressure will be tested at two US Air Force bases and a Navy base