"That's a record."

In the academic world, citations matter. But thanks to the internet, the public is increasingly engaging with science too, and that doesn't just mean reading science news, but actually looking at published research as well.

While we all take for granted the fact that time's arrow forever points towards the future, physicists have always had trouble showing why this is necessarily the case.

Brain researchers have pinpointed a small group of brain cells that are especially responsive to nicotine, and which might be the main culprits in driving addiction to the substance.

The predecessor that outsmarted humans is already obsolete.

It's well established that nuclear fusion - the reaction that powers our Sun - could be the key to unlocking clean, limitless energy here on Earth.

New research has identified a mechanism in the body that appears to act as a kind of internal bathroom scale, registering body weight and telling the brain to reduce or increase food intake as necessary.

Russia has conceded that a high-profile space failure in November last year occurred because scientists programmed a rocket carrying a US$45 million weather satellite with the wrong coordinates.

Your eyes aren't blue (or green) because they contain pigmented cells.

People in Germany essentially got paid to use electricity on Christmas.

Tabby’s star flickers like no other star we’ve seen. Some have suggested that’s due to an alien structure blocking its light, but it’s likely just dust

Well, crap. 

A small pebble found in Egypt is decidedly Not From Around Here.

Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) represent neurodegenerative tauopathies with predominantly cortical versus subcortical disease burden. In Alzheimer’s disease, neuropathology and atrophy preferentially affect ‘hub’ brain regions…

Lightyear One, a car whose ability to use solar power has been thought of as an impossible feat, just won a Climate Change Innovator Award.

What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common?

This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just... works! Here's what this could mean for the future of AI.

This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts - https://youtu.be/yxUkUaV2VPs

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In a sci-fi feeling first, engineers at the University of Bristol used the world's most powerful acoustic tractor beam to demonstrate that it's possible to stably contain objects larger than the wavelength of sound.

Our skin might give us grief sometimes, but one thing we can always depend on it to do is not start indiscriminately leaking blood and sweat everywhere - despite the fact that we're shedding roughly 500 million cells every 24 hours.