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This week, the city known for splitting the atom is the world's science capital.

This AFM is small, easy to use, and costs much less than many high-end AFMs.

Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is ...

“For I have kept from them, and am still keeping from them, that one thing which is above the power ...

It's hard to quantify the total contribution of a university or research group to science, but the Nature Index is ...

"That's not a capitalist market economy anymore," he warned. "That's a feudalist system and it scares … me."

Ernest Hemingway is famous for being one of the most appreciated American fiction writers. However, his personal life is no ...

A Russian billionaire wants to fund the first ever interstellar probe - and he wants to do it in the ...

Together, these two brilliant people forever changed how we understand the world we live in. They did so at a ...

Japanese researchers found a novel way to grow corneas in a dish starting from skin cells. The corneas were implanted ...

In 1992 Douglas Prasher figured out how to clone the DNA of GFP and in 1994 Martin Chalfie expressed this ...

Nobel Prize-winning Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the past century and a man of many talents.

The household goblins have just about finished their bags of Halloween candy, so let's talk about diabetes. Some countries (Canada, ...

50 years ago, on October 28, 1965, an unlikely British geophysicist made a map that set the record straight on ...

Every year, the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded to ten lucky winners. To qualify, you need to publish research in ...

In a thoughtful and engaging biography of Rosalind Franklin, Brenda Maddox beautifully portrays the life of an ingenious scientist.

Scientists rely on a method called radiocarbon dating to determine the age of fossils or artifacts. With little or no ...

After taking a short break in activity to be upgraded, the biggest atom smasher currently in use, CERN's Large Hadron ...

A team at MIT in collaboration with the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan activated the lost memories of mice, ...

A dedication ceremony was held today at the Advanced Laser Gravitational Wave Observatories (Advanced LIGO), a lab tasked with detecting ...

This "drawing" might look like it was made by a kid in grade school, but make no mistake it symbolizes ...

Computer science and the major principles behind it.

Neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have created an out-of-body illusion in participants placed inside a brain scanner to ...

In a most unexpected find, the same University of Manchester team that isolated graphene for the first time in 2003 ...

A group of leading scientists and non-profit organizations are urging museums of science and natural history to break their ties ...

Even if it was first discovered more than 90 years ago, insulin is still out of reach for a shocking ...

Superconductivity or zero electrical resistance at room temperature is any physicist's dream, but so far the challenges have proven too ...

Widespread use of computers is said to make people dumber or more prone to forgetfulness. It's true, while we're less ...

A team of UK researchers led by none other but  Nobel Laureate Andre Geim - one of persons involved in ...

Yoshiro Kawaoka. Yoshihiro Kawaoka has caused massive uproar in the scientific community when he announced he is attempting to recreate ...

Lockheed Martin has officially entered the race to achieve nuclear fusion at room temperature on 15 October, laying out a 10-year ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol used a complex computer simulation to determine how enzymes in bacteria breakdown antibiotics, rendering ...

BICEP2 (in the foreground) and the South Pole Telescope (in the background). Credit: Steffen Richter, Harvard University Nobel prizes, international ...

Feynman was at times called "The Great Explainer" because of his skill at making complex subjects accessible to students, and ...

Chemists led by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless have used what is called click chemistry to uncover unprecedented, powerful reactivity. This opens ...

Nanofluids, fluids containing nanometer-sized particles, show immense potential for future engineering. Even water flowing through nanotubes flows much faster than traditional ...

What's the most common mineral on Earth? Is it quartz, limestone? Maybe olivine? Well, if you take into consideration the ...

Three physicists involved with fusion research have found an elegant way to convert light to matter. And, it can be ...

A new drug causes brain cancer cells in mice to explode. (c) Cell A potentially game changing drug developed by ...

The BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole reported the first ever piece of evidence that support the cosmic inflation theory ...

The discovery of quasicrystals —crystalline structures that show order while lacking periodicity—forced a paradigm shift in crystallography. Scanning tunneling microscopy ...

An award winning student from the Nigerian University of Lagos is claiming that he's "disproved" gay marriage through science, using ...

Dark energy is the mysterious force that drives the Universe's expansion at an ever increased pace. Probing and understanding this ...

Physicists have successfully reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in an experiment which used ultracold cesium atoms ...

Most people don't know this but helium -- the familiar inert gas we all use to inflate party balloons -- ...

The prisoner's dilemma is one of the most famous paradigms and at the same time one of the most discussed ...

Bono of U2 recently let it be known that he was a student of astrophysics (yes, truly!). Upon meeting the ...

Is there something that graphene can't do? It's the world's strongest material, even when it has flaws, a graphene aerogel ...

When shone in blue, the freshwater Japanese eel glows in a beautiful green light. (c) AKIKO KUMAGAI & ATSUSHI MIYAWAK ...

What's the difference between a solid and liquid? You might find this question trivial - naturally, liquids flow and solids... ...