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Drinkers in particular need to be more aware of mounting evidence of links between alcohol and cancer, and make judgements accordingly

Finnish materials physicist Tuomo Suntola, who developed a groundbreaking technology to reduce the size of complex devices, on Tuesday won Finland's take on the Nobel science prizes.

The odd shapes of the inner moons of Saturn, from ravioli to potatoes, may be due to mergers of tiny moonlets, a new study finds.

A rocket engine propelled by electromagnetic waves grabbed headlines, but new tests find the EM drive may actually be driven by Earth's magnetic field

Researchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive colors.

Liquid crystals undergo a peculiar type of phase change. At a certain temperature, their cigar-shaped molecules go from a disordered jumble to a more orderly arrangement in which they all point more or less in the same d...

When it comes to using rTMS to treat neurological and psychiatric conditions, less might be more, researchers say. The study reports fewer stimulations are required to prevent neurons from ceasing to respond.

Researchers reveal a small region of Ataxin-2, a protein implicated in long term memory, may drive the progression of ALS.

Researchers investigate the biological aspects of yawning and consider why yawning is so contagious.

A new technology for decoding neuromuscular signals may help make prosthetic hands easier for patients to use, researchers report.

A new study reveals people with ASD may be at higher risk of being manipulated as they find it more difficult to pick up social cues about deceit. Researchers say the ability to detect lies is significantly diminished in...

Researchers have identified a new neurodevelopmental disorder. The study reveals the inherited disorder can produce learning difficulties and increase seizure risks. The researchers have implicated a recessive mutation i...

The Story Collider visits Fermilab to highlight true stories from scientists. How do snails, shooting stars and science fiction books all relate to physics? They're just a few examples of where Fermilab scientists and ot...

Researchers report subtle hearing loss during youth may pave the way to developing dementia later in life. The study reveals those with subtle hearing loss have altered activity in the right frontal cortex.

A new mouse study reveals females have a three fold higher abundance of EP3, in addition to elevated levels of genes associated with major depressive disorder in the locus coeruleus.

A new study from researchers at UCLA reveals most people with preclinical signs of Alzheimer's dementia will not develop the full scale of the disease.

Physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and the first astronaut to come out as having a same-sex partner, will have her likeness on a stamp.

The OPERA experiment, located at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), was designed to conclusively prove that muon-neutrinos can convert to tau-neutrinos, through a proc...

Financial investing attracts a range of casual neophytes to Wall Street financiers. Variation in expertise and risk-taking behaviors among investors regularly sends markets on roller-coaster rides. Most existing economic...

A quantum internet promises completely secure communication. But using quantum bits or qubits to carry information requires a radically new piece of hardware--a quantum memory. This atomic-scale device needs to store qua...

Jonah Sachs is a storyteller, entrepreneur, and "unsafe thinker." Sachs is the founder and former CEO of Free Range studios, a pioneering creative firm that helped create some of the first viral marketing campaigns aroun...

Networks are often described as trees with spanning branches. How the tree branches out depends on the logic behind the network's expansion, such as random expansion. However, some aspects of such randomly expanding netw...