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The evolution of an efficient water transport system may be how flowering plants came to dominate terrestrial plant life 60-70 million years...

Einstein, eat your heart out: a space-time bubble could enable travel at light speed and beyond. Physicists at Baylor University in Texas ar...

The asteroid blamed for a mass extinction event 65 million years ago could actually predate the demise of dinosaurs by 300,000 years. By ana...

Researchers are developing an influenza vaccine that protects against different strains of the flu, including potential pandemic viruses. Wh...

People are more likely to accurately remember details about their surroundings when in a gloomy mood, researchers have found. The study was ...

By Liz Tay Photons, instead of electrons, are key to a newly developed nanochip manufacture technique that is three times as precise as conv...

Scientists have identified a hormone that could be responsible for non-reproductive differences in male and female brains. The hormone, call...

Almost 3 million years ago, a subtle geochemical change in volcanic lava may have set the stage for complex life to evolve. According to geo...

Potent, man-made hormones could be leaching out of plastic water bottles into bottled drinking water, German researchers have found. In an a...

Researchers have developed a minuscule generator that converts energy from the slightest of movements into usable electricity. The nanogener...

Frustrated parents rejoice: instructions to toddlers may not just be going 'in one ear, out the other' after all. According to psych...

Two student scientists have developed a new fingerprint imaging technique that uses heat to produce images cheaply and effectively. While cu...