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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology classification that includes home appliances and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and actuators that connect and exchange data. One key IoT technology...

The hottest planets in the universe are half star, half cloudy oasis. In the light, it's too hot for molecules to hold together, but they reform into clouds on the dark side

The world's biggest diamond company, De Beers, recently announced it would start selling synthetic diamond gemstones for the first time in its 130-year history. Artificial diamonds have been manufactured since the 1950s ...

(InSilico Medicine, Inc.) Insilico Medicine announced the participation and presentations at the CogX 2018 Conference, June 11-12, London, UK.

A new study reports our brains process pattern learning in a different way than probabilistic learning.

A few people are able to keep the HIV virus in check for decades without getting ill. At last we're beginning to understand what's special about their bodies

Researchers have created an artificial nervous system that may give prosthetics and robots reflexes and the ability to sense touch. The system is sensitive enough to identify letters in the Braille alphabet.

Saturn's rotating magnetic field should reveal how fast the gas giant spins, but it has led to conflicting results. The planet's rings may hold the true answer

Physicists at the University of Zurich are researching a new class of materials: Higher-order topological insulators. The edges of these crystalline solids conduct electric current without dissipation, while the rest of ...

Findings about how the speech center is organized and how fluid speech occurs could lead to the development of neuroprosthetics capable of translating thoughts into speech, researchers report.

A new study reports, following an injury, the motor areas of the brain reduce signaling to a muscle if the muscle is responsible for producing painful movements, but enhances signaling if the muscle counteracts the painf...

A new study reports the larger the growth of areas associated with thinking in the cortex, the slower the growth of regions associated with emotional, sensory and motor skills.

Researchers reveal a link between serotonin and patience at the prospect of reward in mice.

You might be familiar with the experience of scrolling through your Facebook feed, only to feel like everyone else's lives are better than yours.

A newly discovered sarcophagus holding two well-to-do Romans is brimming with treasures, including glass perfume bottles, gold jewelry and a silver mirror, archaeologists in Serbia report.

In a satirical interaction almost too good to be true, activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai confronted Elon Musk on Twitter.

Researchers report walking at a brisk speed can help to increase your lifespan. The study reveals walking at a normal speed is associated with a 20% reduction for all cause mortality, and brisk walking reduced risks by 2...

If aliens are out there, humans might kill them all in their never-ending quest for expansion.

Our solar system is a tiny but wonderfully familiar corner of the vast, dark universe--we have even been able to land spacecraft on our celestial neighbors. Yet its outer reaches are still remarkably unmapped. Now we hav...

An egg-shaped ceramic jar covered with ceramic "rope" once held a prize delicacy: the oldest olive oil on record in Italy, a new study finds.

A study looking at the health of birds that supplement their diets at rubbish dumps and landfill sites suggests they may be paying heavy price for easy calories and weight gain

Although blockchain is traditionally seen as secure, it is vulnerable to attack from quantum computers.