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A new study from Indiana University scientists may aid the pharmaceutical industry in better understanding a popular over-the ...

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The Schrodinger's cat experiment is the source of many arguments in quantum mechanics, mostly because that was the whole ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an ab ...

Tom Crawford teaches at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. At Oxford he is the Public Engagement Lead at the Department for Continuing Education, and a fe ...

(via Steve Mould) Döbereiner's lamp uses a platinum catalyst to react hydrogen with oxygen.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a blood test that can identify early signs of Alzheimer’s ...

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they’d probably describe a system that’s ...