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A new study reveals viruses can disable the production of Foxj1, causing ependymal cells to lose their structure, sparking hydrocephalus.

Two distinct clouds of ultracold atoms have been entangled for the first time, which could help us figure out where quantum effects begin and end

In even the most fuel-efficient cars, about 60 percent of the total energy of gasoline is lost through heat in the exhaust pipe and radiator. To combat this, researchers are developing new thermoelectic materials that ca...

A new neuroimaging study reveals people who consider themselves to be egotistical have no increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex when they think about the distant future. By contrast, altruistic people ...

Traditional 'male' values rank lower on the scale than helping others and being health conscious to Millennial men, researchers report.

A new way of taking images in the mid-infrared part of the spectrum, developed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, could enable a wide variety of applications, including thermal imaging, biomedical sensing, and free-spa...

A new study aims to determine if the cannabis compound CBD can help to alleviate adverse symptoms associated with ASD.

Trying to retain too much information in our working memory can lead to a breakdown in communication between areas of the brain responsible for maintaining it, researchers say.

An earthquake that struck South Korea in 2017 was caused by a geothermal energy project that injected water underground - and risk assessments missed it

Crescent dunes and meandering rivers can "forget" their initial shapes as they are carved and reshaped by wind and water while other landforms keep a memory of their past shape, suggests a new laboratory analysis by a te...

Horses can remember the expressions on people's faces and use them to make judgements about whether people are nice or unpleasant

The use of brain computer interaction in movies can help enhance audience perception and engagement, a new study reveals.

Why build an asteroid cannon? 1) Because it could help explain the history of early Earth, and 2) because it's awesome.

In the age of big data, we are quickly producing far more digital information than we can possibly store. Last year, $20 billion was spent on new data centers in the US alone, doubling the capital expenditure on data cen...

Just like us, dogs carry many kinds of bacteria - and sometimes, this can spread from a pooch to their owner's urinary tract, causing painful infections

In an interview at Singularity University's Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Eugene Borukhovich described how big companies like his can better embrace digital health technologies. Borukhovich is the global head for di...

Researchers have identified a link between anticholinergic medications, including antidepressants and incontinence drugs, and an increased risk of developing dementia later in life.

THE notion that nothing good happens after midnight does not seem to apply to times of birth. Around the world the peak hours for vaginal births that have not been induced by drugs fall between 1am and 7am; the numbers t...

Our galaxy, far far away FOR something so enormous, astronomers know remarkably little about the Milky Way, Earth's home galaxy. They know its rough dimensions--somewhere between 100,000 and 180,000 light-years across. A...

OLD hands at some water companies still on occasion whip out a pair of dousing rods or find a Y-shaped twig to search for a leak in an underground pipe. Dousing, or water witching as it is known in America, has no basis ...

EVERY year human endeavours emit 50bn tonnes of "carbon dioxide equivalent". This way of measuring things reflects the climatic importance of CO2, which traps heat in the atmosphere for centuries before it breaks down, c...

TYPHOID affects some 21m people each year, and about 1% of cases are fatal. Before antibiotics were used to treat the disease 70 years ago, death rates were much higher. If left unchecked, typhoid can cause internal blee...