When someone saw real projected lines, activity in the fusiform gyrus was stronger than when they knew they were simply ...

A Microsoft systems error meant users are being sent a warning that their licence was not valid, with millions affected.

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings ...

Scientists have revealed that radar systems at airports and military bases would shine out like cosmic beacons for any watching civilisations. This means airports like Gatwick and Heathrow could be ...

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People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut ...

Democrats hosted a protest event featuring ‘things we’ll never know’ because of the US government’s cuts to science.

A new report says a population of endangered killer whales off the coast of British Columbia and Washington state is showing no sign of recovery under the current conditions.

Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...