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What's the point of theoretical physics?

Theoretical physics may seem pointless, but it has changed society and continues to do so.

Namibia: Amazing close-up photos of African wildlife in its natural habitat

In collaboration with WWF, Will Burrard-Lucas took incredible new camera-trap images of elephants, lions and hyenas.

Liquid graphene electrons flow 'like a wave through water' producing electric currents

Super-metal graphene's electrons move at 2.2m miles per hour at room temperature.

Goodbye Philae: Chances of contacting Rosetta lander on Comet 67P 'close to zero'

ESA bids farewell to Philae lander just over a year after historic comet landing.

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Nasa: Sea level rise being offset by climate change-induced land water storage

Researchers said more data is needed to understand causes of patterns and if they will continue.

8,500-year-old graves with man buried in upright position found in Germany

Remains of four children and a man buried in a strange upright position have been discovered in Germany.

Pornhub wants help getting whales out of a sticky situation

The site has already received over a billion 'spurts' just three days into the campaign.

Climate change denialism: 1 in 3 US science teachers tell students global warming is natural

First US nationwide survey on climate change education shows 54% of teachers explain scientific theory.

Neanderthal DNA linked with depression, nicotine addiction and psychiatric diseases

Scientists discover how Neanderthal DNA has impacted on modern human health.

LIGO gravitational wave detection: Tremendous discovery opens whole new universe

Physicist says scientists behind gravitational wave discovery will likely be in the running for the Nobel Prize.

Loneliness: Hormone dopamine drives a need for social interaction in mice

Study finds the cause of feeling happy at spending time with others after long periods of loneliness.

Where does rage come from? Origin of violent behaviour discovered in male mice brains

Male mice known to carry out violent and unprovoked attacks on other mice when lateral septum is damaged.

Gravitational waves discovered: LIGO announce detection of ripples in spacetime

Scientists announce detection of gravitational waves 100 years after Einstein predicted their existence

Gravitational waves livestream: Watch LIGO announcement live online

Scientists expected to announce the discovery of gravitational waves.

Secret spy satellite launched by US military and no one knows what it's for

US reconnaissance agency satellite left earth on a classified mission but who or what is it looking at?

Never be late again: World's most accurate clock created by scientists

Time-keeping experts in Germany may have broken accuracy records and nullified all your excuses for being late.

Ancient Rome: Luxury sunken city where Julius Caesar spent summers was built with imported marble

Underwater excavation showed white marble used to decorate villas came from Turkey, Greece and Italy.

Wildlife in Chernobyl going blind from cataracts because of radiation from nuclear disaster

High frequency of cataracts found in Chernobyl bank voles 30 years after nuclear accident.

Abandoned in Place: Eerie photographs of deserted relics of the space race

Roland Miller's photographs show deserted American space facilities that played a crucial role in space exploration.

124 crocodiles crushed and suffocated to death due to poor handling of transfer in Mexico

Mexican authorities set to penalise Cocodrilos Exoticos, the wildlife company responsible for safe transfer.

UK braced for cold and snowy weekend

Met Office says up to 4cm of snow could fall in some parts of the country, especially at higher altitudes.

Earliest migrants in ancient Roman Empire came from North Africa and the Alps as slaves

Migrants were mainly men and children, and may have originated from North Africa or the Alps.

Humans wiped out megafauna on ancient land Sahul within just a few thousand years of arrival

'Megafauna' became extinct 40,000 years ago in Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania, and humans are the cause.

Nasa's new space tourism posters offer futuristic travel to Mars, Jupiter and Titan

Nasa posters promote travel to Mars, Jupiter and Venus and moons Titan and Europa.

Big Bang primordial soup created by Cern's LHC shows early universe behaved like a liquid

Study found quark-gluon plasma behaved like a liquid and had an elliptical shape like a rugby ball.

Watch Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical inventions come to life in a new Science Museum exhibition

39 historically accurate models based on machine sketches by Da Vinci are now on display at the Science Museum.

Why Leonardo da Vinci would have aced the internet cat craze

Leonardo da Vinci would have won the Academics with Cats award.

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Hydrogen plasma three times hotter than the sun created by Chinese scientists

Scientists used a doughnut-shaped reactor to create temperature three times hotter than the Sun.

Nasa rules out Indian was killed by meteorite in Tamil Nadu state

Indian experts also insist preliminary investigation points fingers at non-meteorite explosion.

India: Wild elephant goes on a rampage, destroying 100 homes in West Bengal State

Villagers went outside and saw the large elephant damaging houses and shops.

9,200-year-old fermented fish bones discovered in Sweden show early signs of settlement

As many as 30,000 fermented fish bones were recovered from the site.

Climate change 'may lengthen London to New York flight time'

Global warming set to increase travel time for those flying from Britain to the US, scientists warn.

US Supreme Court halts President Obama's climate change initiative

Unprecedented move by top court spells major trouble for Obama plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Horses found to be able to tell the difference between happy and angry human faces

Horses found to display left-gaze bias and increased heart rate when looking at 'negative' human faces.

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