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Pauses in cholinergic interneuron activity could be a mechanism for controlling how animals respond to external stimuli, researchers report.

Two metabolites produced by fungus from the Red Sea appear to be effective at shortening seizures in mouse models of epilepsy, researcher say.

A new study sheds light on the mechanisms behind how humans recognize and distinguish between two types of visual information. The study provides insight into the level of visual processing where pareidolia, the human ab...

Studying the fleeting actions of electrons in organic materials will now be much easier, thanks to a new method for generating fast X-rays.

According to researchers, success in big events can help boost a nation's health and wellbeing. The study, which looked at data from people whose countries participate in the Eurovision song contest, found people were 4%...

A new study reveals 39% of adults in the US are more anxious today than they were a year ago. Researchers say anxiety is more prevalent in Millennials, especially females.

Understanding Earth's species and ecosystems is a monumentally challenging scientific pursuit. But with the planet in the grip of its sixth mass extinction event, it has never been a more pressing priority. To unlock nat...

Researchers have successfully reconstructed a short movie of randomly moving discs produced by rat retinal neurons, with the help of machine learning technology.

The more types of microbes, the better off your blood vessels.

These drugs kill the most people worldwide, and they're pretty familiar.

Physicists have demonstrated that energy quantization can improve the efficiency of a single-atom heat engine to exceed the performance of its classical counterpart. Energy quantization, in which the energy levels of a s...

There have been 440 confirmed cases of measles in England so far this year. These cases are linked to ongoing outbreaks in Europe, according to Public Health England

Tiny defects in electrical insulating materials may lead to breakdowns, robbing the power grid and even cell phones of reliability and efficiency.

Would you kill someone to save five others? The first lab enactment of this classic thought experiment raises issues for how we programme self-driving cars

A female jumping spider went to great lengths in a leaping experiment.

You can run from Boston Dynamic's humanoid robot Atlas, but it wouldn't do you any good -- the robot can run after you.

Like watchmakers choosing superior materials to build a fine timepiece, physicists at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore have singled out an atom that could allow them to bu...

Unlike chocolate chip cookies or tomato soup, the invention of bread can't be pinned down to a single person or people; instead, it evolved to its present state over the course of millennia.

Many of us carry DNA inherited from Neanderthals, but we can't be sure how it affects us. Stem cells with Neanderthal DNA could tell us

Emma and Liam topped American parents' lists for baby names in 2017.

The Social Security Administration has announced the top baby names of 2017. And the winners are ... Liam and Emma!

The cuneiform tablets were hidden inside a pottery vessel found in the ruins of a palace.