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October 20, 2015

Why invisibility cloaks make you more visible

Most invisibility cloaks under development actually make objects more visible overall, not less, scientists have revealed.

October 20, 2015

Karplus, Levitt, Warshel win 2013 Nobel prize for chemistry

Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for laying the foundation for computer models used to understand and predict chemical processes.

October 20, 2015

South Korean scientists use E. coli to make gasoline

Escherichia coli can cause serious food poisoning but Korean scientists have come up with a more helpful use for the sometimes-deadly bacteria: producing gasoline.

October 20, 2015

‘Terminator’ polymer regenerates itself

Spanish scientists report to have created the world's first self-healing polymer that can repair itself on its own without any intervention.

October 20, 2015

Virus likely causing mass dolphin die-off, NOAA says

Federal officials identified a virus Tuesday as the likely reason hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died along the East Coast, but they say there's little they can do to stop the deaths.

October 20, 2015

New element confirmed for periodic table

Swedish scientists report fresh evidence confirming the existence of a new element for the periodic table, a substance that doesn’t naturally occur anywhere on earth.

October 20, 2015

How to explore the microscopic world

Today's microscopes can reveal everything from the secretion of insulin in pancreatic cells to the chemical crossfire in slices of living brain tissue.

October 20, 2015

Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve' uncovered

Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests.

October 20, 2015

Light lives 1 quintillion years, physicists suggest

The particles that make up light, photons, may live for at least 1 quintillion (1 billion multiplied by 1 billion) years, new research suggests.

October 20, 2015

Scientists decode world's oldest DNA from 700,000-year-old horse

The research gives a better insight into the evolution of one of the most studied mammals.