An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced visual tracking can help expose such ships’ true coordinates ...

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Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

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Food expert Krish Ashok highlights six science-backed breakthroughs — fertilisers, vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, ...

Deadly and destructive, earthquakes remain unpredictable, but faster models that look beneath the ground, can help better ...

A popular Indian folk remedy involves hanging bottles of colored water, particularly blue, to deter stray animals. While ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

"Dimming the lights helps the brain to make melatonin which signals to the body that it's time for sleep," Dr Mahmoudzadeh ...