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Ever since it was proposed that atoms are building blocks of the world, scientists have been trying to understand how and why they bond...

Styrofoam or copper—both materials have very different properties with regard to their ability to conduct heat. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer...

Researchers have analysed these animals for 14 months, concluding that the frequency of their yawns increases immediately after a social conflict among members of...

ESA's XMM-Newton has discovered that gas lurking within the Milky Way's halo reaches far hotter temperatures than previously thought and has a different chemical...

Quantum physics is moving out of the laboratory and into everyday life. Despite headline results about quantum computers solving problems impossible for classical computers,...

The human-caused biodiversity decline started much earlier than researchers used to believe. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters the process...

Writing in Nature, researchers describe the first-time observation of 'self-organized criticality' in a controlled laboratory experiment. Complex systems exist in mathematics and physics, but also...

If you have a dog, hopefully you're lucky enough to know that they are highly attuned to their owners and can readily understand a...

Go ahead, take a big bite. Hard plant foods may have made up a larger part of early human ancestors' diet than currently presumed, according...

The new study, led by scientists from the universities of Bristol and Essex and published today in Current Biology, challenge the established view of the...

Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of...