The program aims to provide students the opportunity to engage with thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche and ...

Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most ...

For years, we were told by tech companies that the traditional hard disk drive (HDDs) were slow and therefore obsolete.

"Once a species vanishes, it's irreversible." Scientists thrilled as ultra-rare flower once thought to be extinct begins to ...

Scientists have created a new platform called 'Oz' that uses laser light to control up to 1,000 photoreceptors in the eye at once. Using Oz, the researchers showed people images, videos and a new, ...

Long before Rome rose from its seven hills, before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, there was Carthage — the other majestic, ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

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Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...

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A new study now extends the researchers' previous work, but with a wider GRB sample. Hakkila and Zsolt Bagoly, authors of the study, have refined the measurements. They detected a number of relatively ...

S cientists might have succeeded in sequencing the entire human genome, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still learning new ...