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An inherited form of progressive deafness has been slowed in mice using CRISPR. The approach might lead to treatments for inherited deafness in people

We used to think Mars lost most of its water to space when its atmosphere blew away. Instead, the water may have been sucked up by rocks that sunk underground

Turns out, hormone levels and brain hemispheres may explain the right-leaning kiss bias.

While most UFO sightings can be attributed to cloud formations, atmospheric phenomena, weather balloons or military planes, a few remain unexplained.

Metal plates and pins for broken bones could be a thing of the past, with porous 3D implants as strong as the real thing used instead

By changing an image pixel by pixel, neural networks can be tricked into thinking a dog is two people skiing

Tardigrades can famously survive almost anything, including being sent into space, but the Antarctic species could face problems as a result of climate change

After a woman in Virginia was reportedly mauled to death by her own dogs, some of her friends had trouble believing the story, because the woman had a strong bond with her dogs.

The first time Dr. Blake Richards heard about deep learning, he was convinced that he wasn't just looking at a technique that would revolutionize artificial intelligence. He also knew he was looking at something fundamen...

Lake Vostok is one of the largest subglacial lakes in the world. It may harbor unique types of organisms.

The black hole firewall paradox has been vexing physicists for years. But if quantum laws lead to the creation of other universes, the headache disappears

Sometimes thought of as dumb brutes, Neanderthals, a dead-end species in human evolution, used tools, buried their dead and controlled fire, among other intelligent behaviors.

A sonogram, or ultrasound scan, can help determine the sex of a baby, but using fetal ultrasound to create keepsakes is not recommended.

The race to revisit the moon is on, and with national space programmes and private companies all setting it in their sights, it might even get a bit crowded

Researchers have designed a memory device based on atomically thin semiconductors and demonstrated that, in addition to exhibiting a good performance in general, the memory can also be fully erased with light, without an...

Use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, whether food is fresh or a lump is malignant. This has all come a step closer thanks to a new spectrometer that is so small it can be incorporated easily and cheaply in ...

To build tomorrow's quantum computers, some researchers are turning to dark excitons, which are bound pairs of an electron and the absence of an electron called a hole. As a promising quantum bit, or qubit, it can store ...

Physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature lower than 3 millikelvin. The scientists from the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute set this ...

Reports that the leading US public health agency is banned from using words like "vulnerable" suggest a worrying belief in not fixing inequality

You would think that electrons would be easy enough to describe -- but a quantum-mechanical property called "spin" makes that task much less straightforward.

The fusion of two protons initiates the primary nuclear cycle that powers the Sun. The rate of this low-energy, weak-interaction fusion is too small to be measured in the laboratory. While nuclear model predictions for t...

The L3-HAPLS advanced petawatt laser system was installed last week at the ELI Beamlines Research Center in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic. L3-HAPLS - the world's most advanced and highest average power, diode-pumped p...