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In a series of experiments, hundreds of students could not bear to let their options vanish, even though it was obviously a dumb strategy

An original and addictive number puzzle.

But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

“Director James Cameron's upcoming "Avatar" must rank as one of the most anticipated film projects in recent memory. "Avatar" will be the realization of Cameron's long-held dream of melding digital 3-D stereo with epic bigscreen storytelling.”

The Vatican has brought up to date the traditional seven deadly sins by adding seven modern mortal sins it claims are becoming prevalent in what it calls an era of "unstoppable globalisation".

Let's stop chopping of our urban trees and embark on a scheme to plant lots of fast-growing trees that soon leave us in the shade.

A fossil animal locked in Lebanese limestone has been shown to be an extremely precious discovery - a snake with two legs. Scientists have only a handful of specimens that illustrate the evolutionary narrative that goes from ancient lizard to more...

“One of the more intriguing theories to fall out of the early gravity-assist research was a hypothetical spacecraft called the Cycler, a vehicle which could utilize gravity to cycle between two bodies indefinitely”

testing a single drug can be a serious challenge; testing drug combinations can multiply that challenge significantly. A paper that will be published in PNAS later this week describes a method of optimizing drug cocktails using a biased random walk.

Novel inkjet printing has been used to produce the delicate wiring and tiny components needed for flexible screens. The new inkjet head is able to produce drops 1,000 times smaller than standard printers, according to the researchers.

In recent tests of semiconductor bits only a few nanometers in diameter—entities known as nanocrystals or quantum dots researchers have been surprised to find that photons at solar energies commonly unleash multiple electrons.