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The Next Generation of Cameras Might See Behind Walls

Daniele Faccio and Stephen McLaughlin 28/01/2018

Single-pixel cameras, multi-sensor imaging and quantum technologies will change...

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Cancer Is Costing BRICS Economies Billions of Dollars Each Year

Alison Pearce 27/01/2018

Policies encouraging lifestyle changes that reduce the risk of...

An Ulam spiral of the number of divisors of the first 100,000 natural numbers. Numbers with exactly two divisors – 1 and the number itself – are called prime numbers. Credit: Cortexd/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Review: the Trials and Delights on the Long Road to the Twin Prime Conjecture

Nilakantan R.S. 26/01/2018

Most readers at varying levels of sophistication in mathematics...

just one instance of exposure was enough to introduce DNA breaks and cause the chromosomes to rearrange themselves. Sponchia/pixabay

Drinking Alcohol Linked to DNA Damage in Cells That Produce Blood

Sarah Iqbal 26/01/2018

An experiment in mice found that the damage once...

A handout picture shows a beach in the Azores is pictured littered with plastic garbage

Eleven Billion Pieces of Plastic Bring Disease Risk to Coral Reefs

Joleah Lamb 26/01/2018

A new study has found that contact with plastic can...

Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists listens to her fellow members talk about their decision to move the 'Doomsday Clock' hands to two minutes until midnight at a news conference in Washington, U.S. January 25, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Leah Millis

Two Minutes Left: ‘Doomsday Clock’ Now Closest to Midnight Since Cold War

Barbara Goldberg 26/01/2018

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the world...

A close-up view of the teeth accompanying the left maxilla of human remains from Misliya Cave in Israel, the oldest remains of our species Homo sapiens found outside Africa, is provided in this photo released on January 25, 2018. Credit: Handout via Reuters/ Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University

Fossil Jawbone Found in Israel Is the Oldest Modern Human Found Outside Africa

Rolf Quam 26/01/2018

New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins...