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A new study sheds light on why some children with ASD also have epilepsy. Researchers report the catnap2 mutation, associated with autism, does not allow inhibitory neurons to correctly form and this can lead to an incre...

University of Groningen physicists have induced magnetism in platinum with an electric field created by a paramagnetic ionic liquid. As only the surface of the platinum is affected, this creates a switchable 2-D ferromag...

Illicit drug residues in sewage spiked for holidays and special events during summer 2017 in rural Kentucky.

Researchers have developed a new blood test capable of detecting biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease long before the first symptoms appear.

Researchers have identified a new type of stem cell which may aid neural repair following injury or disease.

Astronomers first noticed an enigmatic object, dubbed "Sagittarius A*", at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy in the 1960s--the earliest days of radio and infrared astronomy. But just how extraordinary this source wa...

A new study reveals older adults can generate just as many new hippocampal neurons from progentior cells as young people. The findings confirm neurogenesis does occur in older individuals.

With novel optoelectronic chips and a new partnership with a top silicon-chip manufacturer, MIT spinout Ayar Labs aims to increase speed and reduce energy consumption in computing, starting with data centers.

A robotic bee talks to bees in their own language, but not all of them seem to pay attention

German yellowjacket wasps alert each other to food by drumming their abdomens against the nest wall, in a wasp equivalent of the famous honeybee "waggle dance"

Dark matter may actually be a scattering of primordial black holes that arose soon after the Big Bang as a result of instabilities in the Higgs field, according to a new theory.

This computer chip will do some of your remembering for you (but you'll need brain surgery first).

A jumble of tiny bones turns out to be eight unborn ichthyosaurs.

A group of scientists from MSU, Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Juelich Research Center have described the mechanism of appearance of an inertial lift ...

What do you do if you're in the middle of nowhere and you have a heart attack?

Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda recently revealed that he has shingles and needs to be "quarantined" from his newborn son.

Lettuce, cucumbers and radishes are among the first plants to be collected from the greenhouse.

"It would live forever... and we could never escape," Musk says in a new documentary.

Drones hovering and darting over the mountainous landscape of Peru have spied some amazing ancient "artwork": previously unknown and sprawling geoglyphs called Nazca Lines that were likely made by the Nazca people and th...

(Acoustical Society of America) Science promises to sound more exciting than ever at this year's Acoustical Society of America meeting. Presenters will reveal the latest in acoustics research with insight into topics lik...

(Seismological Society of America) Seismology of the Americas is a joint conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA).

(European Research Council) The Advanced Grants from the European Research Council, worth a total of EUR653 million, announced today will benefit 269 senior researchers across Europe, giving them a chance to realise thei...