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Short-term memory loss occurs when a person can remember incidents from 20 years ago but is fuzzy on the details of things that happened 20 minutes prior. Medical conditions and injuries can cause short-term memory loss.

(University of Colorado at Boulder) The University of Colorado Boulder has been awarded a cooperative agreement worth up to $14.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new technological ...

California's extreme drought could become the new norm as the climate warms, leaving engineers scrambling to develop new ways to slake the state's thirst     

This week, a team of scientists and engineers began a two-week field simulation of a mission to Mars.

The tide is changing in our understanding of old age.

Far below our feet, deep within the Earth's crust, could lie a vast body of water, according to new research from seismologists in the UK.

The northern lights dance across the sky, creating an ethereal glow that illuminates the darkness, in this jaw-dropping photo taken from Norway.

The impact of European settlement on Australia was so massive that many mammals disappeared before anyone noticed they were there, but fossils from the past 10,000 years offer excellent evidence of pre-European fauna.

Itching can be annoying, but like pain, a little bit can be a good thing. Itching can help people learn to avoid dangers like mosquitoes carrying malaria, or poison ivy. But many people suffer from chronic itch, which ha...

What separates man from monkey? (Aside from some stricter etiquette around poop-flinging, that is.) Some researchers think they've found one key feature that's unique to Homo sapiens: an area of the brain that seems to h...

Ancient hanging scrolls helped physicists find an answer to a millennia-old problem – the solution may also prove useful in flexible electronic displays     

At subduction zones, where one plate bends deep beneath another, the sinking plate can carry more than an ocean's worth of water into the mantle over billions of years.

This Japanese bra springs open when it detects an amorous heart rate.

Researchers are proposing a new technology that might control the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current, an advance that could have applications in a diverse range of fields from electronics ...

Fascinating time-lapse video shows bubbly brewing process of a seasonal strong ale.

The port and barracks for sailors or military troops would've been in use while the pyramids were being built some 4,500 years ago. The findings suggest the area was a central port for the generations of three pharaohs, ...

The future has arrived - and it's on one wheel. Check out the video above of the Ryno bike: a one-wheeled, electric-powered motorcycle created by Chris Hoffmann. The Ryno was based off a sketch by Hoffmann's daughter who...

Stephen Hawking has changed his mind about what black holes are - not for the first time. Take a journey through the biggest shifts in black hole lore     

All the latest on newscientist.com: new era of fast genetic engineering, Black Death, MERS, kestrel spy drone, a famous brain rebuilt and more     

Engineers intrigued by the toughness of mollusc shells, which are composed of brittle minerals, have found inspiration in their structure to make glass 200 times stronger than a standard pane.

Asian elephants menacing the Hassan district of Karnataka are being rounded up but opinion is divided over whether it is best to train or relocate them     

Scientists have found a part of the human brain known as the lateral frontal pole prefrontal cortex, that seems to be unique in humans.