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In an interview at Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Singularity University faculty and speaker Dr. Divya Chander takes a look at how emerging technologies are letting us peer inside the human brain like never before. A...

A new study reports misfolded proteins can cause circadian rhythm disruptions which contribute to cancerous tumor growth.

New guidelines recommend twice weekly exercise for people with mild cognitive impairment to improve memory and cognition.

A team of physicists argues that its strange, spherical fusion reactor could be the way forward for nuclear energy.

If an extraterrestrial civilization were to observe and study our planet from an objective perspective, there is no doubt that among the millions of species on Earth, homo sapiens stands out. This species sits on top of ...

WUSTL researchers report a poor night's sleep can cause levels of amyloid beta to rise faster than the brain's waste disposal system can remove it. Researchers note frequent sleep disruptions can lead to an increased ris...

A rare, 60-page map of the world illustrated during the early Renaissance is finally on display as its creator intended: With its colorful pages arranged in a 2D circle, showing a bird's-eye-view of the world from the va...

In 1587, Italian cartographer Urbano Monte completed a world map with a unique perspective.

Brittle bone disease can cause bone fractures in the womb, but a trial of a novel therapy may strengthen bones before birth

Highly efficient high power short pulse lasers at the wavelength range of 2 µm based on Tm3+ doped materials have a variety of applications such as material processing, LiDAR, mid-infrared OPOs for wavelengths up to 12 ...

A new book chronicles flatulence behaviors from snakes to elephants, answering the basic question, "Does it Fart?"

Instead of stitching together short human sound bites to create words and sentences, Google's latest system generates vocals from the text alone

The body's skeletal system may have an internal scale that senses when someone has gained weight, so the body can decrease appetite in response, a new mouse study shows.

For the past four years, a mysterious syndrome has been killing millions of sea stars along the West Coast, turning the five-armed critters into piles of goo. But now, the sea stars appear to be making a comeback, accord...

There was plenty of science in the movies that hit screens large and small in 2017.

(PLOS) Resistance to antibiotics poses a serious and sometimes deadly challenge to the treatment of severe bacterial infections. In a new Essay publishing 28 December in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Kristofer Wo...

(PLOS) A protein that transports the simple chemical choline plays a major role in vesicle trafficking, ion homeostasis, and growth and development in plants, according to two new studies publishing Dec. 28, in the open-...

(Scripps Research Institute) Nobel laureate Kuth Wüthrich investigates the structure of an important drug target.

(PLOS) New evidence from mice suggests why an antidepressant treatment can alleviate depression in one person but not another. The study, publishing December 28 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, was led by Mariann...