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Charge! FROM avoiding jaywalkers to emergency braking to eventually, perhaps, chauffeuring the vehicle itself, it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important part of the cars of the future. But it is ...

THE beams of protons that circulate around the 27km-circumference ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest particle accelerator, carry as much kinetic energy as an American aircraft-carrier sailing at...

WHEN politicians in the rich world speak of job losses and stagnant incomes brought about by immigration and foreign competition, they usually have blue-collar work in mind--car manufacturing, steelmaking and the like. B...

A Japanese tech company trained an AI to answer questions about love, which requires it to deal with "non-factoid" queries that are often long and complex

The use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to treat advanced prostate cancer is not associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer disease, a large-scale, population based study has concluded.

Using a novel technique to analyze antibodies in fluid collected from intestines of 81 HIV-1-infected and 25 control individuals, researchers have found abnormal gut antibody levels in people infected with HIV-1.

A new study reports the compression of hydrogen gas to a metallic state, but skeptics are unconvinced --

The stem cells that proliferate the most in response to damage caused by cigarette smoke repair their DNA using a process prone to errors, setting the stage for lung cancer, according to a new study.

Scientists have discovered the gene essential for chemically reprogramming human amniotic stem cells into a more versatile state similar to embryonic stem cells.

Intravenous contrast media (typically iohexol or iodixanol) used in computed tomography (CT) does not appear to be associated with chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplant or acute kidney injury, despite long-...

Surgeons have operated on a patient with retinal vein occlusion using a surgical robot. Operated by an eye surgeon, the robot uses a needle of barely 0.03 millimeter to inject a thrombolytic drug into the retinal vein of...

Mechanical pressure caused by cancer growth plays a key role in the development and distribution of blood vessels in tumors, according to a new study.

A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant caused by combustion, to a level that is now double the allowable limit recommend...

Sandy beaches are often patterned with sunburned visitors, brightly colored towels, and poorly constructed sand castles. However, the wind can create much more intriguing patterns in sand, from tiny ripples to towering d...

There's a known rule-breaker among materials, and a new discovery by an international team of scientists adds more evidence to back up the metal's nonconformist reputation. According to a new study led by scientists at t...

Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating the rarest - and potentially one of the most valuable - materials on the planet.

Intensive breeding has made many vegetables lose the gene variations that give them great flavour, but now we've identified them, we can put them back

Diamonds, low temperatures and pressures way above what's found at Earth's centre were used to create a form of hydrogen foreseen back in the 1930s

An innocuous smell or sound can be enough to trigger painful memories of trauma. Now researchers have found a way to disconnect linked memories in mice.

When comparing a patient's self-reported eye symptoms to what ultimately goes in their electronic medical record, the overlap is often blurry, say researchers.

Hospital-led interventions over a seven-year period were associated with a significant reduction in the hospital's cesarean delivery rate, a new study has found. During the intervention period, researchers found that the...

A discovery into how bacteria control a host's hunger points to new ways to treat infections and appetite loss.