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Neural networks are powerful things, but they need a lot of juice. Engineers at MIT have now developed a new chip that cuts neural nets' power consumption by up to 95 percent, potentially allowing them to run on battery-...

New material could lead to supercapacitors that hold more energy than lithium batteries and allow electric vehicles or smart phones to be charged in minutes

(Vienna University of Technology) If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there is plenty of space in between for other atoms. A 'giant atom' can be created, filled with ordinary atoms. All these atoms fo...

Researchers report new findings about the immune system could help treat inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and could save people from deadly inflammation associated with sepsis.

A new optogenetics approach allows the imaging of neurotransmission without the use of electrode, researchers report.

A new study reports only half of infants under three months of age who have bacterial meningitis show traditional symptoms of the disease, such as high fever.

Researchers at the Chinese search engine Baidu say their tech could create duplicate voices for people who can't speak, or be used to personalise digital assistants

The patient arrived at the hospital with a device in his body that could potentially explode.

Because the universe is expanding, it may be possible to survive entering a black hole, ending up in a place where the past no longer dictates the future

The same techniques used to train self-driving cars and chess-playing computers are now helping physicists explore the complexities of the quantum world.

For two people to send each other a message, it usually takes a minimum of two particles. But quantum superposition makes it possible with just one

Administering oxytocin via nasal spray to new mothers strengthened their brain responses to images of baby and adult faces, researchers report.

Preterm birth has significant and selective effects on functional networks in the frontal lobe, researchers report.

An international research team headed by Professor Dr. Annie Powell, a chemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Professor Dr. Jürgen Schnack, a physicist at Bielefeld University, has synthesized a new...

A new study reports researchers have developed a new gene editing approach that may provide a new treatment avenue for Huntington's disease.

Researchers reveal how being pessimistic may be beneficial for performance, confidence and health.

Fifteen more species of "zombie ant fungus" have been discovered, and they all force their hosts to die in creative ways to further their own life cycle

Researchers report people who follow the DASH diet may have lower rates of depression over time.

Classically, information travels in one direction only, from sender to receiver. In a new paper, however, physicists Flavio Del Santo at the University of Vienna and Borivoje Dakić at the Austrian Academy of Sciences ha...

Michio Kaku tells Redditors his predictions about intelligent aliens.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection isn't an idea with holes. It's one of the most solid theories in science. But what exactly is it?

Microresonator-based optical frequency combs enable highly-precise optical distance ranging at a rate of 100 million measurements per second - publication in Science: Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)...