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The tiny cone-shaped "skimmers" used in experiments looking for exotic chemical-quantum phenomena resemble the intake mechanisms of aircraft engines, and they perform similar functions: Each directs the flow of gas - the...

Zhe Fei pointed to the bright and dark vertical lines running across his computer screen. This nano-image, he explained, shows the waves associated with a half-light, half-matter quasiparticle moving inside a semiconduct...

Just like animal brains, plant seeds use a system of two competing hormone-signaling systems to decide whether to sprout or stay dormant, new research shows.

The higher the concentration of tumor cells in the bloodstream, the greater the risk of metastasis. The number of circulating tumor cells indicates how well a patient is responding to therapy. Researchers have developed ...

Singularity University is dismayed by the Trump administration's choice to withdraw from the Paris Accord. Climate change is one of the greatest risks to humankind, and the decisions we make over the next few decades wil...

A 10-year study disrupts conventional wisdom that uterine fibroids cause miscarriages, outlines a new report.

Although lifestyle contributes to heart disease, genetics play a major role. This genetic facet has remained largely mysterious. But new research has identified what may be a key player: a mutated gene that leads to irre...

In previous studies, researchers linked infant brain anatomy differences to autism diagnoses at age two. Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two.

Given its stats, the recently discovered planet KELT-9b probably deserves its own baseball card. The planet and its host star, KELT-9, compose a unique system among the exoplanets discovered so far. KELT-9 is a relativel...

The zone of mantle rock that sits 400 to 600 kilometres below our feet seems to be saturated with water

A machine-learning program can tell from scans which high-risk infants will later show autism symptoms. This could, controversially, enable early intervention

A new, implantable cardiac device to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation is now available, providing an alternative to the long-term use of blood thinners.

Hysterectomy has an increased negative impact on women, including constipation and incontinence, a controversial new study indicates. The question of whether hysterectomy does more harm than good is examined in a new pap...

Researchers who previously showed that a gene therapy treatment could save the lives of dogs with a deadly disease called myotubular myopathy -- a type of muscular dystrophy that affects the skeletal muscles--have found ...

Major flaws have been identified in the fast tracking of some drugs available to the American public without any stringent clinical evidence of their benefits.

Overweight children have more unreciprocated friendships and frenemies than their thinner counterparts, a new study has found. In a survey of 504 preteens in the Netherlands, researchers found that overweight children ar...

A hatchling exquisitely preserved in amber is giving us the best glimpse yet of what an extinct group of birds was like

The robo-dog's bark is generated by a mammalian voice synthesiser which could help create realistic robot animal companions for use with the elderly

New fossil bones and tools from Morocco show that the familiar face of Homo sapiens was present in Africa as early as 350,000 years ago

Naming a solar probe after astrophysicist Eugene Parker breaks the space agency's tradition of only honouring the dead. That's a good thing, says Geraint Lewis

The tech giant will bring it own ad blocker to Chrome next year, in the hope that blocking the worst ads will encourage users to put up with the rest

Genetic manipulation of exosomes, virus-sized particles released by all cells, may offer a new therapeutic approach to treating pancreatic cancer, according to a study.