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University of Alberta chemists have taken a critical step toward creating a new generation of silicon-based lithium ion batteries with 10 times the charge...

Fever is known to help power up our immune cells, and scientists in Shanghai have new evidence explaining how. They found in mice that...

If you're angry about the political feud that drove the federal government to partially shut down, or about a golden parachute for a CEO...

More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas discovered that when they used a magnetic field to flip the magnetic...

Researchers at the George Washington University have taken a major step toward reaching one of the most sought-after goals in physics: room temperature superconductivity. Superconductivity...

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered three new species of groundwater salamander in Central Texas, including one living west of...

Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the...

Supermassive black holes weigh millions to billions times more than our sun and lie at the center of most galaxies. A supermassive black hole...

Honey bee colonies around the world are at risk from a variety of threats, including pesticides, diseases, poor nutrition and habitat loss. Recent research...

Scientists have long speculated that our planet's climate system is intimately linked to the Earth's celestial motions. The pacing of the most recent ice ages,...

The people who hold the most extreme views opposing genetically modified (GM) foods think they know most about GM food science, but actually know...