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In an unprecedented engineering endeavor, workers are replacing the crumbling structure hastily erected to contain radiation at Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear power disaster in 1986.

A comparison of machine intelligence: Watson versus Deep Blue

As geneticists plan to study the DNA of a mass killer in hopes of eventually preventing rampages, some researchers question what good could come of the findings.

Forget solid, liquid, and gas: there are in fact more than 500 phases of matter. In a major new article scientists reveal a modern reclassification of all of them.

Scientists have developed a technique that may prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases in children.

Hristo Bojinov wants you to forget your password. More precisely, he wants you to never really know it in the first place.

Ο παγκόσμιος πληθυσμός διαρκώς αυξάνεται, ενώ η διαθεσιμότητα πρώτων υλών ολοένα μειώνεται. Παράλληλα, τα ταξίδια και ο αποικισμός άλλων πλανητών φαίνεται να έχουν απαγορευτικό κόστος....

Where are our mass-produced

SCIENCE has few more controversial topics than human intelligence—in particular, whether variations in it are a result of nature or nurture, and especially whether...

A recent study suggests that bullying by peers changes the structure surrounding a gene involved in regulating mood, making victims more vulnerable to mental health problems as they age.

Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists have found that the brain is wired to put in order all the categories of objects and actions that we see.