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An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate of nearly twice an hour....

Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years..

Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently houses NASA's James Webb Space...

Credit: University of Stirling The operation of surveillance cameras is the subject of a new UK strategy, shaped by a University of Stirling privacy expert....

Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from one point to another, it...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations -- a common type of defect in materials -- can affect electrical and heat...

Credit: Robert Campbell Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new method of controlling biology at the cellular level using light. The tool--called...

Credit: Iris Choi, Oxford University WASHINGTON -- With the growing popularity of mobile phone apps to pay for purchases at cash registers and gas pumps,...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Hunter; C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); GLIMPSE, NASA/JPL-Caltech A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled stellar nursery, recently roared to...

Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds alike....

The participation of civil society organisations in the international REDD+ programmes seeking to reduce deforestation, forest degradation and CO² emissions could play a key role...

Credit: Journal of Economic Entomology Annapolis, MD; March 8, 2017 -- Not all bed bugs are created equal, and some of the leading bed bug...

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method could soon be used to...

The first of a new class of medication that delivers a combination of drugs by nanoparticle may keep melanoma from becoming resistant to treatment, according...