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Using EEG technology, researchers have discovered a specific brain signal that helps us to understand what we hear in conversation.

We weren't the only ancient artists - the discovery of 66,700-year-old cave art show our Neanderthal cousins also liked to draw

Growing mini tumours in the lab from a patient's own cells could help doctors discover the best way to treat each person, homing in on the right drugs to use

A new study sheds light on the neurobiological processes that occur when we die.

Researchers have created a new algorithm capable tracking down beneficial genetic mutations.

The wetting and adhesion characteristics of solid surfaces critically depend on their fine structures. However, until now, our understanding of exactly how the sliding behaviour of liquid droplets depends on surface micr...

With the increasing popularization of datacenters and other bandwidth hungry interconnect applications, today's bandwidth growth of short-distance optical networks demands data transmission speeds of more than 100 Gb/s, ...

According to researchers, adult born neurons play a critical role in the identification of sensory stimulus and the positive values associated with sensory experience.

Apps want to disrupt public transport by creating "innovative" services that look suspiciously like buses, but real-time data could make for a better ride

A team of researchers working on the antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation (PUMA) project near CERN's particle laboratory, according to a report in Nature, plans to capture a billion antiprotons, put them in a shipping...

The 2,700-year-old seal impression refers to Isaiah, which may be the first extra-biblical evidence of the man who has a book in the Hebrew Bible named after him.

Bats can carry viruses like Ebola and Marburg that are lethal for humans. This may be because, in order to fly, their bodies have given up on fighting such viruses

Middle-age adults who had surgery showed greater declines in memory and executive function than similar people who did not have surgery.

An analysis of a social media site called Gab, set up as a champion of free speech, reveals that one in 20 posts uses hateful language

There's an unsettling premise at the heart of Joe Brewer's life's work. Brewer is a change strategist dedicated to ensuring a thriving global civilization exists 100 years from now--and he believes this is becoming less ...

Doctors in India recently operated on what they say could be the largest brain tumor in the world, according to news reports.

Boston Dynamic's new robot dog can fight off a human as it opens a door.

Watching the waves AROUND 1936 three neurologists at Harvard Medical School raided the medicine cabinet, filling their boots with morphine, barbiturates, ethers and even cobra venom. They injected those substances into (...

CALCULATING machines that run on quantum bits (known as qubits, for short) are, by some accounts, the future of computation. Quantum computers have the theoretical advantage that they can solve with ease certain mathemat...

TAKE the fertilised egg of a pig. From each cell in the resulting embryo cut out a gene or genes that promote the development of the animal's heart. Inject human stem cells from a patient who needs a new heart into the e...

TSUNAMI are terrible things. And part of their terror lies in their unpredictability. Even when a submarine earthquake that may cause one is detected, the information that is needed to determine whether a giant wave has ...

WHAT'S a gene? You might think biologists had worked that one out by now. But the question is more slippery than may at first appear. The conventional answer is something like, "a piece of DNA that encodes the structure ...