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The way we interact with the technology in our lives is getting progressively more seamless. If typing terms or addresses into your phone wasn't easy enough, now you can just tell Siri to do the search or pull up the dir...

A personalised cancer vaccine that trains the immune system to attack tumours has had encouraging results in women with ovarian cancer

New research identifying a pathway for Huntington's disease helps lay the foundation for developing drug therapies.

Life sciences professors have found that giving students access to their personal biological data has a profound impact on their learning experience. In a summary of their experiment, the researchers report students with...

A global rally against the denigration of science was a huge event in 2017. The need for a repeat this weekend is strong, says Jonathan Berman

The US is making noises about increasingly militarising space, but orbital conflict won't be a battle of spaceships and bombs

Random number generators are key to data encryption, but it's impossible to prove that most truly work. A new one uses quantum laws to guarantee randomness

When sexual selection leads to extreme differences between sexes like the peacock's tail, it makes species more likely go extinct

Researchers have identified neural circuits that help govern parenting behaviors in mice.

According to a new study, children with executive function deficits were more likely to show physical and reactive aggression later in life. Researchers suggest helping children to improve executive function could help t...

These hardy physics components live at the center of particle production. For some, a target is part of a game of darts. For others, it's a retail chain. In particle physics, it's the site of an intense, complex environm...

A new study builds on previous findings that demonstrate EEG recordings of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex can predict eventual response to treatments for depression.

The brain continues to put up a fight even as neurodegenerative diseases like dementia damage certain areas and functions. In fact, recent findings in a Baycrest-University of Arizona study suggest that one method the br...

Inflammatory reactions can change the brain's immune cells in the long term -- meaning that these cells have an 'immunological memory.' This memory may influence the progression of neurological disorders that occur later...

A new study -- one of a few to concentrate on microbes in the upper gastrointestinal tract -- shows how the typical calorie-dense western diet can induce expansion of microbes that promote the digestion and absorption of...

Scientists have deconstructed the brain circuits that control parenting behavior in mice, and identified discrete sets of cells that control actions, motivations, and hormonal changes involved in nurturing young animals.

Half of all meetings start late - and your boss is probably to blame. A study found that meetings delayed just 10 minutes are likely to be less productive

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) havedeveloped a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics.Described in the April 12 issue of Nature, the experimen...

Researchers report the reading brain may not be quite as proactive as previously assumed when it comes to predicting upcoming words.

A new study reveals the brain may reassign tasks to different regions of the brain in order to counter the onset of neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers have discovered a method to engraft immune cells in the brains of lab mice without the use of radiation.

Facebook has built an AI fashion designer that is intended to be truly creative. It has designed more than 1000 handbags, jumpers and T-shirts