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Scientists decode why too many choices hinder decision making

Scientists have identified the brain region behind choice overload, which makes it difficult make a decision when faced with too many options. Choice overload can sometimes have serious consequences, said Colin Camerer, a professor at Califor

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Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland awarded Nobel Physics Prize for laser research

Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers used for surgery as well as scientific study, the award-giving body said.

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Scientists discover how bird feathers resist tearing

Chinese scientists have discovered a sophisticated mechanism in bird feathers that enhances tear resistance, overturning a centuries-old explanation of how bird feathers work. The newly discovered cascaded slide-lock system is composed of fle

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Scientists develop new catalyst which may help turn water into fuel

Scientists say they have developed a highly stable material that helps split water molecules for hydrogen fuel production. Breaking the bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water could be a key to the creation of hydrogen in a sustainable man

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You may soon be able to read one's mind, thanks to a system called BrainNet

Reading one's mind may scientifically be true after all. Researchers have built a system called BrainNet which allows an actual exchange of thoughts between the brains.

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You can now buy Martian dirt for just $20 a kilogram: Here's how

Scientists have created experimental Martian dirt -- a simulant that closely resembles the soil on Mars and could help find ways to grow food on the red planet for future human colonies. Researchers from University of Central Florida (UCF) in

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China is currently testing three hypersonic aircraft models together

In a first, China has successfully tested three types of scaled-down hypersonic aircraft models together whose speed will be adjustable for a precision strike towards an unstoppable nuclear-capable weapon, the state media reported.

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See pics: World's first lion cubs conceived artificially in South Africa

Watching the two little lion cubs boisterously play with each other at a conservation centre outside of South Africa's capital Pretoria, it's hard to see anything out of the ordinary. 

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China launches Centispace-1-s1 satellite on low-cost solid-fuel rocket

China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket.

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'New sugar-powered sensor to detect and prevent diseases'

A team led by an indian-origin scientist has developed an implantable sensor that runs on sugar, and can monitor the body's biological signals to detect, prevent and diagnose diseases. The sensor developed by Subhanshu Gupta, an assistant