Illustration: Mattias Adolfsson Don't trust us. Which is to say, the press isn't always the most reliable transmitter of information about well-being.

Could this be Torchwood in the works? A former adviser to the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense claims that the country has stockpiled weapons capable of defending against an alien invasion.

The Navy is spending almost $1 million to fund a humanoid robot capable of using tools.

When we make the move to quantum computers, we'll need a quantum internet. And that's why a team of researchers at Tsinghau University in China have built what they call the world's first quantum router.

In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a major threshold. Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers have been able to take over an animal's brain, instruct it to turn in any direction they choose, and even to implant false senso...

Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever or a device that opens new dimensions into quantum phenomena such as emergence and entanglement.

Nobody likes listen to people complain. No matter how empathetic you try to be, there's always that little voice in your head that's saying; So why are you telling me? and/or Why don't you just go and do something about it? The longer you endure their complaints, the longer that voice sticks around ...

(Phys.org)—Researchers at Keio University in Japan have built a robot arm that is capable of capturing the nuances involved in the writing form known as calligraphy. The Motion Copy System uses motion capture in a new way to faithfully recreate the strokes of master calligraphers.

Researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.

(Phys.org)—It would seem that figuring out how many molecules of water are needed to form the smallest, or most basic ice crystal would have been discovered long ago, but that is not the case, because to measure both the size and structure of a water molecule cluster at the same time, two types of ....

A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.<br /><br />“There’s a whole bunch of different animal species,” says Adam Reeves, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, “and a whole bunch of differen…

The following material has been expanded considerably into a 324 page book “Physics of baseball and softball” published by Springer in March 2011.

If the cosmos is a numerical simulation, there ought to be clues in the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, say theorists

Special relativity can accommodate objects moving faster than light, given a few minor adjustments, physicists say.

The flat lasers are made using the same LCDs now found in laptop displays and flatscreen TVs.

A deeply rooted concept in everyday life is causality; the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future. Physicists from the University of Vienna and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles have shown that in quantum mechanics ...

Getting to one of our nearest neighbours, Mars, would take six to eight months using conventional spaceship engines. Ideas like warp drives are still theoretical, and unlikely to be seen within our lifetimes. However, it might be possible to cut that trip to Mars down to as few as three months using...

A new study suggests caffeinated coffee drinkers should limit their intake to reduce their chances of developing vision loss or blindness. According to a

Working on the Curiosity rover is the culmination of a longtime love of science that began when she was a teenager growing up in Lawrence, 32-year-old Lauren DeFlores said.

Two linemen colliding can light a 60W bulb for over a minute!

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DARPA-funded systems are part of quest for cheaper, lighter, more capable bots.

A Lunar supercomputer could ease our deep-space networking bottleneck Image: Simon Lutrin/Wired Should we build a supercomputer on the moon? It woul

I have seen the future of law enforcement, and recent news suggests that it could be coming to New Jersey. First of all, we are closer to having Robocops than ever.

You can amplify light by bouncing it between the horizons of a black hole and a white hole. Now physicists have worked out how to build such a device in the lab

As if you needed another reason to watch kitten videos.

Time travel, as presented in the new movie "Looper," isn't outlawed by physics.

Although the term "pyrotechnic delay system" may be met with blank stares, such items are actually more commonplace than you may think.

Project aims to let anyone print a gun in their own home, raising new concerns about the legality of homemade firearms

An artificially intelligent virtual gamer has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against. The victory comes 100 years after the birth of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, whose "Turing test" stands as one of t...