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(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this year, PhysOrg reported on a new idea that suggested that gravitational charges in the quantum vacuum could provide an alternative to dark matter.

Being smart is the most expensive thing we do. Not in terms of money, but in a currency that is vital to all living things: energy

The stock of drug-maker Abbott Laboratories tanked May 26 after results were published on a trial of whether the B vitamin niacin can help prevent heart disease and strokes. The immediate follow-on question is whether the premise on which that trial was based, the so-called HDL Hypothesis, has just received another coffin nail

You might think it’s hard to have a conversation with theoretical physicist Brian Greene. His research specialty is superstring theory, the hypothesis that everything in the universe is made up of miniscule, vibrating strands of energy. Luckily for an interviewer, Greene has a knack for explaining difficult concepts to non-scientists.

University-backed research inspires a game where users crush virtual cigarettes--and, in turn, their own bad habit.