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The discovery of a new group of weird fish - which sport bright red, Mohawk-like fins on their heads and finger-like fins on their sides - has delighted the divers who encountered them, just as they were trying to find t...

According to researchers, modern primates, including humans, are still able to digest insects as well as our ancestors did. The CHIA gene allows us to digest an insect's exoskeleton, researchers report.

Researchers have developed a new maze to help test spatial and navigational memory. The new honeycomb maze is a significant improvement over the standard Morris Water Maze, researchers report.

A new study reports there may be hope that epigenetic diseases could, some day, be cured.

According to a new study, vocal songs that accompany dance, sooth a child or express love tend to sound similar across different cultures. The findings, researchers note, show consistency with the existence of a universa...

A new study reveals how the brain is able to categorize objects. Researchers report gamma rhythms categorize similar looking items, while beta rhythms help us categorize more abstract objects.

We thought that Homo sapiens were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a jawbone from an Israeli cave reveals an exodus over 170,000 years ago

We answer your technical and ethical concerns raised after the arrival of the world's first cloned monkeys using the Dolly technique

How do you get a house cat to lose weight? The onus is on the owner.

MIT researchers have developed a new ultra-thin needle capable of delivering drugs directly to the brain.

Researchers report exposure to a compound used to treat seizures and migraine can cause characteristics associated with autism.

Even for those genetically susceptible to developing dementia, enhanced lifestyle counselling can help to prevent cognitive decline, a new study reports.

Body cameras and smart glasses can capture your every waking move, so a new device stares at your eyeball to know when to record

Despite treating 86 people since 2015, China's approach to CRISPR genome-editing in humans is basic and risky

The SciToons program pairs students with different levels of scientific expertise to create animated science explainers. Once a week at Brown University, professors and students with backgrounds ranging from neuroscience...

Human memories are notoriously fallible. We forget things, misremember things, and often don't even know what we no longer know. What if there was a way to flip through the catalog of our precious memories and, with the ...

Tomorrow, yesterday WHEN a British Airways Concorde travelling from New York touched down at Heathrow airport, in London, on October 24th 2003, supersonic passenger travel came to an end. Concorde was a technological mar...

A lullaby in any language "WHERE words fail, music speaks." Though these words, from the pen of Hans Christian Andersen, are an appealing notion, the idea that there might be universals in music which transcend cultural ...

Now for a bit of metra-analysis WHEN Constantin Coussios, a biomedical engineer at Oxford University, arrived one day in 2013 at the transplant centre of King's College Hospital, in London, with a liver for their use, he...

Inhibition of the P2X4 protein receptor in sensory neurons decreases sensitivity to touch, a new study reports. The findings could have implications for the development of new topical treatments for psoriasis and dermati...

Acoustics go nano.

The "Doomsday Clock," a hypothetical countdown to global Armageddon, gets a new position.