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A new study reports speech comprehension can improve as much as 10% when sound is delayed relative to vision.

Neural networks running on GPUs have achieved some amazing advances in artificial intelligence, but the two are accidental bedfellows. IBM researchers hope a new chip design tailored specifically to run neural nets could...

Targeting a protein associated with addiction could help reduce aggression levels, researchers report.

A new study reveals children show less attention to emotional facial expressions if their parents are highly critical.

Researchers report mitochondrial dysfunction may affect the activity of serotonergic neurons in mice with ANT1 mutations. The findings may provide insight into the origins of bipolar disorder.

A dust storm bigger than North America has blown up on Mars, and it's blocking out the sunlight that powers NASA's ageing Opportunity rover. Is this its last gasp?

The Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has started to assemble a new facility for revolutionary accelerator technologies that could make future accelerators 100 to 1,000 times smaller and boost t...

Researchers have identified a new type of depression. The findings may help explain why some people are resistant to current treatments for depressive disorders. The study reports on how a specific protein, RGS8, plays a...

Genome editing with CRISPR may select for cells with mutations in a key anti-cancer gene, but now we know of this risk it should be possible to ensure treatments are still safe

Tiny diamonds in clouds circling bright young stars may be the source of unexplained microwave radiation from space that has baffled astronomers since 1996

Two newly developed blood tests may help moms-to-be accurately answer this ever-popular question: When is your baby due?

People with Parkinson's seem to have some differences in their gut microbiome - but is this cause or consequence?

Vitamin B5, also called pantothenic acid and pantothenate, is vital to living a healthy life. Like all B vitamins, it helps the body turn food into energy.

An exoskeleton is being tested that helped a wheelchair user to walk for several hours without pain. It supports its own weight and mimics the wearer's natural gait

A team of researchers from China, Germany and the U.S. has found that boson sampling with photons is a viable option for testing for quantum supremacy, despite photons leaking from a given test system. In their paper pub...

With #ShrunkenCupOff, ocean scientists were crushing it on Twitter.

Researchers in Germany have started collecting data with a 60 million euro ($71 million) machine designed to help determine the mass of the universe's lightest particle.

A physicist decries the trend of chasing after aesthetically pleasing theories that lack empirical evidence --

Your kitchen towel may harbor a number of different bacteria, a new study finds. But can your towel really make you sick?

Donald Trump's commitment to coal is short-sighted and wrong-headed. A 100 per cent renewable future is coming - and other countries will reap the rewards

The itty-bitty shrimp shares more than a feature or two with the protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel.

Human sperm cells are well-studied, so scientists were completely surprised to find a previously unknown structure in the little swimmers.