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Quantum network secretly running for 2 years

November 3, 2015

Quantum network secretly running for 2 years

A national laboratory has been running a quantum network that could make perfectly secure Internet communications a reality

Nuclear fusion just got a boost with the arrival of this stellarator

November 2, 2015

Nuclear fusion just got a boost with the arrival of this stellarator

Researchers could be one step closer to producing energy through nuclear fusion with word that a device called the stellarator is set to go online later this year in Germany.

What if reality were really just 'Sim Universe'?

October 22, 2015

What if reality were really just 'Sim Universe'?

Physicists propose experiment to test hypothesis that reality is just a computer simulation.

Metamorphosing beast center-stage in Sony game

October 21, 2015

Metamorphosing beast center-stage in Sony game

Knack was created to be the perfect beast to show off the spectacularly vamped up visual powers of the PlayStation 4 game console.

Chernobyl 2? Watching the world’s aging power plants

October 21, 2015

Chernobyl 2? Watching the world’s aging power plants

North Korea’s aging Yongbyon nuclear power plant probably won't lead to a nuclear catastrophe, despite an alarming report calling it the next Chernobyl -- but the danger posed by the world’s aging reactors is real nonetheless.

Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

October 21, 2015

Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

Scientists have discovered travelers from beyond our solar system buried under the ice of the South Pole -- not living creatures or space beings but tiny, extra-terrestrial particles known as neutrinos.

Research on dung beetles, people who think they're drunk among the 2013 Ig Nobel award winners

October 21, 2015

Research on dung beetles, people who think they're drunk among the 2013 Ig Nobel award winners

People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive? Lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home? Yep, it's the Ig Nobel awards again.

5 mysterious particles lurking underground

October 21, 2015

5 mysterious particles lurking underground

While the world's largest atom smasher was busy finding the Higgs boson particle — thought to explain why other particles have mass — physicists have been quietly building giant underground laboratories deep beneath the Earth.

Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

October 21, 2015

Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Physicists say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson.

Is scientific genius extinct?

October 21, 2015

Is scientific genius extinct?

Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo, who first used the telescope to study the sky, or Charles Darwin, who put forward the theory of evolution, argues a psychologist and expert in scientific genius