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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 persecution of wolves in order to remove them from human settlements has culminated in their near-disappearance in numerous European countries, like Spain and Sweden. Following a recovery of the species, a team of sc...

How are neural networks "expressing themselves" through original paintings, songs and fiction?

(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.

Nighttime snacking and junk food cravings may contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors and represent a potential link between poor sleep and obesity.

New research shows that LsrK forms a complex with HPr, a protein involved in glucose utilization in E. coli.

Researchers have found evidence that weight loss can result in worsening bone density, bone architecture and bone strength.

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 ...

As the FIFA World Cup approaches researchers have found that keyhole surgery could help get injured footballers back on the pitch faster than physiotherapy-led treatments. The team has analysed two treatments for femoroa...

Researchers have found a new phenomenon that a complex of myo-inositol-hexakisphosphate (InsP6) with zinc enhances excretion of radioactive strontium from the body.

Researchers identified a crucial role for air sac-based scavenger blood cells, alveolar macrophages (AMs), in driving hepatocellular cancer metastasis in the lungs. AMs were found to be recruited by interstitial macropha...

Scientists have chemically modified the enzyme levansucrase using a new method. The enzyme can now produce sugar polymers that are exciting for applications in the food industry and medicine.

Patient preferences for diagnostic testing differed significantly across levels of risk, benefit, and cost of diagnostic testing, but cost was the strongest and most consistent factor associated with decreased desire for...

When we speak, we engage nearly 100 muscles, continuously moving our lips, jaw, tongue, and throat to shape our breath into the fluent sequences of sounds that form our words and sentences. A new study reveals how these ...

Job gains continued for Americans with disabilities in May, although fewer were looking for work.

Researchers have developed a new form of microscopy that allows them to observe the formation and evolution of cell membrane focal adhesions.

A new study has uncovered an entirely novel mechanism by which cells enter a state of dormancy as tissues starved of oxygen become increasingly acidic.