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A reboot of a classic quantum experiment suggests that photons have a well-defined trajectory, resurrecting a previously dismissed theory

The intestinal microbiota is necessary to ensure optimum postnatal growth and contributes to determining the size of adult individuals, notably in the event of undernutrition. The key element in this relationship is Insu...

A 3,000-year-old wooden wheel has been discovered in the remains of a prehistoric town that collapsed into a river in east England. Archaeologists said the Bronze Age wheel is the largest and best-preserved of its kind, ...

While a classical bit found in conventional electronics exists only in binary 1 or 0 states, the more resourceful quantum bit, or 'qubit' is represented by a vector, pointing to a simultaneous combination of the 1 and 0 ...

Human texts could long outlast the human race with a new digital storage system.

The recently launched Hitomi spacecraft will look for answers from the universe's violent phenomena. Although the star-covered night sky is regarded by many as a synonym of serenity, the cosmos is in fact a rather hostil...

Excessive growth of bacteria in the small intestine could be damaging the guts of young children, leading to stunting, scientists from the U.S. and Bangladesh have discovered.

A new group of powerful antibodies to fight Ebola virus has been discovered by a team of scientists. The antibodies, isolated from the blood of a survivor of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the largest panel reported to date...

The ability to forget may be a coping strategy used by plants to deal with unpredictable environments

Two tardigrades and one egg that spent the past three decades cooling their jets in a researchers' freezer were recently resuscitated.

New research demonstrates that particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretati...

New research is analyzing the role of enzyme Topo II and how its functions may show how cancer mutations are born. Topo II is an essential protein necessary for normal cell division, but it is found to be over expressed ...

Thirty percent of women worldwide experience some kind of physical or sexual assault during their lifetime. In a recent animal study, scientists -- who have developed a new model to determine how stress affects females -...

Why does sleeping on it help? This is the question tackled by new research, which reveals how brain activity during sleep sorts through the huge number of experiences we encounter every day, filing only the important inf...

A new treatment can quickly and completely reverse the effects of the blood thinner dabigatran (Pradaxa) in patients suffering a brain bleed. The treatment, idarucizumab (Praxbind), is the first medication on the market ...

Stroke survivors who get medications by mail are more likely to take them as directed than patients who get medications from local pharmacies, according to new research.

The Indian government has granted initial approval for the construction of LIGO-India, a gravitational wave detector that will work with the two in the US

A new wing design for small flying vehicles takes inspiration from bats to improve flight efficiency

Thinking too hard about learning something could make the behavior less automatic.

(Phys.org)--Quantum entanglement--which occurs when two or more particles are correlated in such a way that they can influence each other even across large distances--is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon, but occurs in va...

The light that broke up the early universe's gas and made intergalactic space transparent probably came from binary star systems

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers from multiple institutions in China has cast doubts on the simple approach that has until now been taken regarding twinning and slip as metals deform. In their paper published in the jou...