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The LHC is one of the coldest places on the planet. Liquid helium is constantly pulsing through sophisticated plumbing that runs both inside and outside of the Large Hadron Collider. Thanks to this cryogenic cooling syst...

A team of scientists including Carnegie's Tim Strobel and Venkata Bhadram now report unexpected quantum behavior of hydrogen molecules, H2, trapped within tiny cages made of organic molecules, demonstrating that the stru...

What if the odds of an event occurring were about one in ten billion? This is the case for the decay of a positively charged particle known as a kaon into another positively charged particle called a pion and a neutrino-...

Researchers report piglets of mothers who were fed a choline rich diet had increased white and gray matter in the brain.

UTA researchers are leading an international team developing a new device that could enable physicists to take the next step toward a greater understanding of the neutrino, a subatomic particle that may offer an answer t...

A new study suggests honeybees adhere to the same laws as the human brain when embarking on collective decisions.

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) produces electric fields (EFs) at subcortical levels of the human brain, report investigators . Data demonstrate that detected voltage changed proportionally with the amount...

Researchers have demonstrated a method to accelerate motor skill recovery after a stroke by helping the brain reorganize itself more quickly. In a preclinical study, the scientists paired vagus nerve stimulation with a p...

About one third of cancer cases are estimated to be linked to dietary and other modifiable risk factors, especially for obesity-related cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovarian, endometrial, kidney, gallbladder, esoph...

Much has been made of quantum computing processes using ultracold atoms and ions, superconducting junctions and defects in diamonds, but could we be performing them in our own brains?

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are conducting fundamental physics research that will lead to more control over mercurial quantum systems and materials. Their studies will enable ad...

A new study debunks the assumption that facial expressions simply reveal human emotion. Researchers report our facial expressions stem primarily from our intentions.

Researchers report alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors enhance communication between the hippocampus and frontal cortex, where as a4b7 nicotinic receptors decrease the communication. The findings may have implicati...

A new neuroimaging study reveals preschool aged children with ASD have significant differences in the basal ganglia network and paralimbic-limbic network in the brain compared to their peers who were not diagnosed with a...

Project Mercury proved that humans could live and work in space, paving the way for all future human exploration.

Crimes carried out online are already illegal, so politicians should stop calling for new laws and start enforcing the old ones

A virtual reality game monitors your heart rate. If you're not finding it scary enough, the game automatically intensifies the horror

BIABooster technology can characterize DNA with new precision and sensitivity. When used to analyze residual DNA circulating in the blood, it has identified promising signatures for monitoring patients with cancer.

The James Webb Space Telescope, which will hunt for signs of life on other worlds, was supposed to launch next year. It has now been delayed to May 2020

Why are infections from the viruses that cause West Nile fever, dengue and even Zika deadly for some people but mild in others?

Even some of the more remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, far from major rivers, were once densely populated - centuries before the arrival of Europeans

We have the international tools to resolve uncertainties over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal - but they will only work if Russia cooperates