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In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the...

This month marks the four-year anniversary of protests over the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an incident met with a heavily...

Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to...

Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process, such as photoluminescence and the ability...

An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol have demonstrated that light can be used to implement a multi-functional quantum processor. This...

A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has used a combination of genomic and fossil data to explain the history...

The human body produces many antimicrobial peptides that help the immune system fend off infection. Scientists hoping to harness these peptides as potential antibiotics...

New quantum theory research, led by academics at the University of St Andrews' School of Physics, could transform the way scientists predict how quantum...

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology report on an enzyme belonging to the glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) family as a promising target for increasing...

America's drug problem may be even worse than officials realize. And illicit drugs are consumed at a higher rate during celebratory events. Those are...

Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere provided strong support for quantum entanglement, the seemingly far-out idea that two particles,...