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(Phys.org)--A combined team of researchers from France and Japan has created a decision-making device that is based on basic properties of quantum mechanics. In their paper published in Scientific Reports (and uploaded t...

In a 10-year study, people who ate a lot of produce and avoided processed meats had a lower risk of depression.

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working for Toshiba in Japan and the U.K. has found a way to prevent Trojan horse attacks on quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. They describe their ideas in a paper they have had pu...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers with members from several countries in Europe has used a type of X-ray diffraction to reveal defects in the way a superconductor develops. In their paper published in the journal Nature,...

A jellyfish-like creature is made of up tiny nectophores that each spurt out jets of water in order to steer and thrust the creature forward.

If human-caused climate change continues unabated our world could change dramatically. A new visualization was created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research that shows the ice loss if current temperature trends...

Researchers have built an ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that gets around this problem, by turning objects into perfect, flat mirrors.

A study of anatomy, art, religion, and culture overturns the popular explanation for the papal hand of benediction posture. An anatomy professor says an ulnar nerve injury suffered by St. Peter, not a median nerve injury...

Unwed parents were once more likely to get divorced than couples who got married before having kids. Not anymore, a new study shows.

Researchers have found unique genetic mutations in the Inuit genome that make them more adapted to cold as well as a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids, with the side effect of shorter height. This is the first evidence hu...

HIV latency depends on the activity of proteins from the human host called histone deacetylases, and previous work has shown that HDAC inhibitors can disrupt HIV latency. This study reports results from a clinical trial ...

Nearly 100 children in the United States were suspected of having Ebola last year, and they sometimes experienced delays in care because medical staff were concerned about being exposed to the disease.

This season's flu vaccine has arrived.

There's a 97 percent chance the planet is going to have its hottest year on record.

Lead actor Matt Damon describes how Ridley Scott's film - and Andy Weir's book - can perk students' curiosity, in this conversation with Space.com's @DavidSkyBrody at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

As the gap in life expectancy between the highest and lowest earners in the US has widened over time, high earners have disproportionately received larger lifetime benefits from government programs such as Social Securit...

Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, but don't exist in real life, or do they? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National La...

A team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.

Some claim that North America's famed monarch butterfly is a natural genetically modified organism owing to the transfer of wasp genes by tamed viruses

A deadly parasite that causes Chagas disease is widespread in a common Texas insect, according to a new study by University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researchers. The finding suggests that the risk of Texans contracting...

Scientists have used a genetically engineered vaccine to successfully eradicate high-grade precancerous cervical lesions in nearly one-half of women who received the vaccine in a clinical trial. The goal, say the scienti...

For the first time, a study has identified genomic differences between the breast tumors of African American and white women, differences that could contribute to the recognized differences in recurrence rate and surviva...