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Researchers have identified an over accumulation of iron in the mitochondria of mice genetically engineered to have Huntington's disease.

An AI that compresses images by simply throwing bits away and making up what should be there instead could make blocky video calls a thing of the past

(University of Innsbruck) Entanglement is of central importance for the new quantum technologies of the 21st century. A German-Austrian research team is now presenting the largest entangled quantum register of individual...

Blend two or three metals together and you get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns.

Researchers have developed the smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator to date. The device may be used to monitor and treat diseases in real time, researchers report.

Researchers reveal the Western diet can induce the expansion of microbes in the small intestine that promote the digestion and absorption of high fat foods. Over time, researchers say, these microbes can increase the ris...

A new study reveals sleep deprivation can lead to an immediate increase in amyloid beta.

Researchers explore the neuroscience behind binge eating and the triggers that might make us reach for comfort foods.

Photographs of a Ganges river shark snapped at a fish market in Mumbai are the first confirmed record of the species for more than a decade

Researchers report the later a women enters into natural menopause, the better, on average, her verbal memory is later in life.

Hacking into cash machines to get them to spit out money or just blasting them open is on the rise, whilst card skimmers are decreasing in popularity

The hunt for exoplanets is getting a new set of eyes. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is set to launch Monday and could find 20,000 new worlds

A new study examines how a person's mental state affects how they look at a piece of art.

New UN-agreed limits on carbon emissions from shipping don't go far or fast enough, especially as we already have the tech to make shipping carbon-free

After Jupiter formed, it likely had no nearby material to build moons. Young Saturn may have tossed rocks at the gas giant that grew into its four biggest moons

It may be time to ditch the desk chair.

Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn't so far removed from what I do now. In factories, labs, and of course science fiction, imaginary robots kee...

If you want to know how to pour the perfect pint or create the ultimate cup of coffee, then you really need a mathematician.

Tarantula -- it's what's for dinner.

A concept for a novel X-ray microscope promises three-dimensional images of delicate objects like biological cells using a thousand times less damaging radiation than conventional methods. The novel microscope would allo...

A team of researchers from the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has conducted an ultra-precise measurement of the fine-structure constant, and in so doing, have found evidence that casts...