By Sumathi Reddy There’s an art to napping. Studies have found different benefits—and detriments—to a nap’s timing, duration and even…
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By Sebastian Anthony Scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK are working on a Star Trek-like deflector shield…
By Tom Laskawy OK, everyone have a seat and take a few deep breaths. Go to your calming place. Ready?…
Medieval chronicles have given an international group of researchers a glimpse into the past to assess how historical volcanic eruptions…
What you’re looking at is the first direct observation of an atom’s electron orbital — an atom’s actual wave function!…
Science and religion often seem poles apartand in many ways they are. But I believe the two can, and will…
A new landmark stem cell technique in therapeutic cloning opens new horizons in treating rare diseases and disorders caused by…
A recent NASA report throws the space agency into conflict with its climatologists after new NASA measurements prove that carbon…
In 2004, eight neuroscientists felt it was too soon for a definition of consciousness. They wrote an apology in “Human…
By JOHN HEILPRIN The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of…
A superfast black hole nearly 60 million light-years away appears to be pushing the ultimate speed limit of the universe,…
In Star Trek, the Borg is a menacing race of cybernetically-enhanced beings who conquer other races and assimilate them. They…
A flawed gene implicated in Parkinson’s disease lets proteins build up dangerously in key brain cells, according to a study…
Activist Post Flowers’ methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to…
Charles Q. Choi io9.com Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically…
The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will…
Printing blobs of human embryonic stem cells is the latest step towards being able to grow organs on demand. Researchers…
South Korea has embarked on the development of a preliminary concept design for a fusion power demonstration reactor in collaboration…