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By monitoring unconscious eye movements while reading, an algorithm can predict the proficiency of someone learning English as a second language

A solid can serve as a medium for heat and sound wave interactions just like a fluid does for thermoacoustic engines and refrigerators - resulting in leak-free machines that can stay operating longer.

Researchers utilize a visual search experiment to demonstrate the human visual system has the ability to perceive objects beyond the limits of our visual field.

Researchers have identified two brain pathways that appear to be critical in determining how mice react to visual threats. The findings could have implications for treating PTSD and phobias in humans.

Columbia University researchers reveal targeting a specific serotonin receptor can help to boost memory formation. The study reports targeting 5-HT4 receptors could help improve cognitive impairment.

The world's cutting-edge particle accelerators are pushing the extremes in high-brightness beams and ultrashort pulses to explore matter in new ways.

Magnetic waves vibrating through an interstellar cloud called Musca reveal its 3D shape. We though it was long and thin, but it's actually flat like a pancake

The world's amphibians are dying in swathes because of the lethal chytrid fungus, and it seems the epidemic had its origins on the Korean peninsula

Studying pictures of North Korea's nuclear test site has let researchers calculate its weapons are about 10 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

The achievements of the eighteenth-century explorer stand up surprisingly well to modern scrutiny, finds Boyd Tonkin

The achievements of the eighteenth-century explorer stand up surprisingly well to modern scrutiny, finds Boyd Tonkin

A new study reveals older adults with greater symptoms of depression have a smaller brain volume and a 55% greater chance of vascular lesions in the brain than those who do not have depression.

Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded a new grant to develop a novel brain machine interface that utilizes both an ultrasound helmet and EEG.

A new study reveals a link between chronic sciatica and inflammation in key areas of the nervous system. Researchers say the location of the inflammation could help to determine which patients will feel relief from stero...

Indiana University researchers provide evidence that rats are able to mentally replay memories of past events. The study reveals the animals' memories were long lasting and resistant to interference from other memories, ...

Eating all of your daily meals by mid-afternoon has been found to lower appetite and cut blood pressure, and may make you less likely to develop diabetes

It won't be cheap, but your holiday plans could include a trip to the edge of Earth's atmosphere or beyond--before the end of this year. Several space tourism companies are zeroing in on their first launch. Bob Smith, CE...

Equally unattractive at any time of the month? ONE of the more intriguing findings in the field of evolutionary psychology over the past two decades has been that ovulating women are more strongly attracted to men with f...

WHEN people learn to drive, they subconsciously absorb what are colloquially known as the "rules of the road". When is it safe to go around a double-parked vehicle? When pulling out of a side street into traffic, what is...

RADIO waves cannot penetrate water, so cannot be used for submarine communication. That is why the sea is probed by sonar, not radar. But, as people and their machines venture ever farther into the deep, ways of building...

After a 25-year gap, the federal government may fund the search for intelligent aliens with $10 million for the next two years.

Geologists warn that Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could start spewing rocks