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(Osaka University) An international research team led by Osaka University built a novel 'Catch-Load-Launch' microfluidic device to monitor the resilience of red blood cells after being held in a narrow channel for variou...

For a mind to be capable of tackling anything, it has to have a memory. Humans are exceptionally good at transferring old skills to new problems. Machines, despite all their recent wins against humans, aren't. This is pa...

Just one month after major research findings showed dangerous PFAS present in more than one-third of fast food packaging tested, researchers have created a new technique to track PFASs in the body.

Regularly spaced notches on a raven's wing bone appear to have been carved for aesthetic reasons, with implications for Neanderthal intelligence

For the first time, doctors can determine which medication is more likely to help a patient overcome depression, according to research that pushes the medical field beyond what has essentially been a guessing game of pre...

The latest products may bring joy to people around the globe, but academic researchers this week are highlighting the heightened health risks experienced by people in regions far downwind of the factories that produce th...

The bacteria Listeria monocytogenes can live inside the tissue of romaine lettuce, researchers have found, suggesting that conventional post-harvest sanitization practices might not be sufficient to kill the potentially ...

A new study found that infantile vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency severely affected the motor function of preschoolers who were fed faulty formula in the first year of their lives. The conclusions were based on a retrosp...

A rarely-seen deep-sea octopus eats zooplankton and a gelatinous, low-calorie food - jellyfish - and may use them as tools to catch food and feed through

Sofosbuvir can cost up to €55,000 for a course of treatment. Charities hope revoking the patent would allow far cheaper generics to cure hepatitis C in Europe

Nearly a quarter of premature deaths from air pollution worldwide happen in countries that manufacture goods for export

Algorithms that make judicial and financial decisions about people perpetuate racial or gender bias in the data they learn from. There's a way to clean it up

New observations finally reveal why an odd planetary nebula is so chilly: two stars met their end in close quarters

Teaching machine learning algorithms to recognise objects in a more human-like way could make it easier for us to trust them in systems like driverless cars

Generalized anxiety disorder is much more common among adults who have migraines than those without migraine, according to a new study. Many people with migraines have pain that prevent some daily activities and have pro...

Since the discovery in 2009 that brown fat can be active in adult humans, researchers around the world have worked to unveil ways to switch on this fat. Scientists have now identified a new route to throw the switch.

Researchers have identified a hormone that helps fight off a severe form of bacterial pneumonia, and that discovery may offer a simple way to help vulnerable patients.

A muddy rescue saves 11 elephants in Cambodia.

More than 20 different types of dinosaur tracks are preserved along the coast of western Australia, earning it the name "Australia's Jurassic Park" ... even though the footprints date to the Cretaceous.

The snout of the elusive sawfish doesn't make vibrations that prey fish can detect as it swims - just like a wind turbine blade through air

Astronomers have found a bizarre asteroid orbiting the sun in the wrong direction while playing a risky game of "chicken" with the largest planet in the solar system.

A video shows the heroic rescue of 11 Asian elephants that got stuck in a mud-filled bomb crater in Cambodia.