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Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data. To analyze this data, perhaps to predict a storm, seizure or heart...

Researchers report myelin continues to form and restructure in the adult brain.

A new study links increased time spent on social media by 10 year old girls to a decline in wellbeing at the age of 15.

The bottom quark may lead physicists on a path to new discoveries. The Standard Model of particle physics has been developed over several decades to describe the properties and interactions of elementary particles. The m...

Researchers report inflammation driven by obesity reduces the number of taste buds in mice. As a result, obese mice had a diminished sense of taste.

A new PNAS study reveals typically developing children experience neurogenesis in the amygdala as they become adults. However, for those with autism, the amygdala loses neurons as they age.

A fire in New South Wales has destroyed 69 homes, even though Australia's fire season is over - climate change may be a factor

A new fruit fly study reveals how learned auditory cues can alter mating behavior and sexual preference.

A genetically engineered yeast makes beer that tastes of hops, without using any hops - and it could make beer cheaper and more environmentally friendly

Steven Hawking's ashes will be buried near the graves of fellow British scientists Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, it was announced Tuesday.

Slashing pigs with swords doesn't sound like science. But that's exactly what scientists had volunteers do — hack away at a pig carcass with a Japanese samurai sword called a katana.

Pay no attention to the person wielding a samurai sword and hacking away at a pig carcass -- he's doing it for science.

The joke is that nuclear fusion is 20 years away, and always will be. This joke, now a cliché, arose from optimistic scientists suggesting in the 1950s (and then in most subsequent decades) that nuclear fusion was just ...

A pedestrian has become the first to die after being hit by a self-driving car. The autonomous vehicle regulatory free-for-all must end, says Mark Harris

Researchers investigate the mechanisms behind one of the most common forms of synesthesia.

A new particle detector design proposed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could greatly broaden the search for dark matter--which makes up 85 percent of the total mas...

For the first time, researchers have optically trapped and propelled a particle-based laser for centimeters inside an optical fiber. The new flying microlaser enables highly sensitive temperature measurements along the l...

With Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, dead it is natural to ask if we can bring these animals back with biotechnology - but there is nowhere for them to live

It's been a long time coming, but we're excited to finally announce we have officially launched a new way for publishers to easily (and legally) republish our articles on their sites. We believe an important component of...

Their horns are made of the same stuff as human fingernails!

Researchers have successfully reproduced illusory motion in deep neural networks that were trained for perception. The DNNs were able to accurately reproduce the direction of illusory rotation humans observe while lookin...

Since their invention, computers have become faster and faster, as a result of our ability to increase the number of transistors on a processor chip.