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Researchers have designed an interferometer that works with magnetic quasiparticles called magnons, rather than photons as in conventional interferometers. Although magnon signals have discrete phases that normally canno...

Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.

It may sound contradictory, but diamonds are the key to a new technique that could provide a very-low-cost alternative to multimillion-dollar medical imaging and drug-discovery devices.

Using brain simulations, researchers report emergency cooling techniques could help to minimize long term damage that arises as a result of birth complications and limit the effects of stroke.

Someday you might buy wine in a plastic bottle made from the same grapes. Their skins, stems, and seeds can be used to make plastic that lasts longer

Using a system dubbed μRobotex system, researchers have created a microhouse so small a mite can not fit through the front door. Researchers say the creation pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies.

The beauty of the skies is on display in this incredible image, the first sent back by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite on its way past the moon

Researchers have developed a new technique that combines graphene based biointerfaces with light to control the behavior of lab grown heart cells.

Researchers report Parkinson's patients who received a combination of cognitive training and dopaminergic medication showed a significant reduction in the severity of their freezing of gait, a symptom associated with PD.

A major route toward creating effective vaccines against dengue virus and Zika involves the E protein that covers the surface of each viral particle. But creating such a vaccine has proven difficult for a number of reaso...

An international team has discovered how to exploit defects in nanoscale and microscale diamonds and potentially enhance the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance systems while eliminat...

A new study will look at how sleep deprivation affects cognitive flexibility and cognitive processing on a neurobiological level.

Researchers have found a surplus of pathogenic bacteria in placentas from premature births, supporting the hypothesis that maternal infection may cause preterm birth.

Researchers report intuition is the result of information processing in the brain that results in prediction based on previous experience.

Scientists have found that various stages of the development of human malaria parasites, including stages involved in malaria transmission, are linked to epigenetic features and how chromatin -- the complex of DNA and pr...

A company in Kenya has devised a system that uses artificial intelligence to detect a child's level of malnutrition from a photo, without bulky equipment or examinations

It's hard enough to identify a knockoff Louis Vuitton bag. When quantum computers hit the market, how will buyers know they're not getting duped...or settling for something that isn't quite as "quantum" as they think? Im...

Bill Gates says President Trump repeatedly asked him about the difference between two notorious viruses: HIV and HPV.

The latest outbreak of the deadly virus has spread to a city of a million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But hopes are high disaster can be avoided

From a first-principles perspective, the task of feeding eight billion people boils down to converting energy from the sun into chemical energy in our bodies. Traditionally, solar energy is converted by photosynthesis in...

Scientists collate the evidence for the mismatch between past evolutionary adaptation and our modern lives. They also ask whether natural selection linked to modernization might reduce globally the burden of some chronic...

Researchers find that boys who start smoking pot before 15 are much more likely to have a drug problem at 28 than those who start at 15 or after.