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Researchers report specific alterations in signaling circuits associated with memory can induce an abnormal response in neurons, which is linked to the aging process and cognitive decline.

Researchers are studying the brain activity of adults with ASD to better understand the cognitive changes that occur across aging in adulthood.

A new study reveals men who experience migraines have higher levels of estrogen than men who do not suffer the debilitating headaches.

A new study reports a genetically modified poliovirus therapy has been shown to improve long term survival rates in recurrent glioblastoma brain cancer patients. Researchers say the therapy had a three year survival rate...

A new device that combines brain stimulation with EEG recordings could help to restore brain function in those suffering neurological disorders.

Researchers say exercise is crucial to the overall health of those with depression. The study reveals people with higher levels of fitness during middle age were significantly less likely to die from cardiovascular disea...

Liquid water sustains life on earth, but its physical properties remain mysterious among scientific researchers. Recently, a team of Swiss researchers used existing THz spectroscopy techniques to measure liquid water's h...

Heroin users make too much of a "wakefulness" chemical in their brains. The finding hints that milder opiates may offer a new way to treat narcolepsy

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been plagued by delays and cost overruns, and now it has been delayed another year for a planned launch date in 2021

Shrinking life chances plus lack of a social safety net may have left middle-aged Americans more vulnerable to suicide than peers in other rich nations

The magma ocean that covered early Mars crystallised into a crust faster than we thought, which would have given life on the Red Planet a head start

The path of the "interstellar asteroid" discovered last year can't be explained by gravity alone - it was also pushed along by gas, so it might actually be a comet

Saturn's moon Enceladus spews plumes of water into space, and it's also spitting out complex organic molecules that could be the building blocks of life

The biggest, brightest lasers make for good headlines, but this isn't a story about those. This is a story about lasers so tiny you need a microscope just to see them--lasers smaller than red blood cells. These tiny lase...

We bought a bunch of tardigrades online (thanks, internet!) and tried to see them with six inexpensive microscopes. Here is what we discovered.

From autonomous cars to flying taxis to electric-powered aircraft, technological innovations in transportation vehicles seem to be moving faster than Elon Musk's express loop underneath Chicago. But when it comes to regu...

The U.S. Navy's most commonly used torpedo -- the Mk 48 -- is getting a makeover that will make it stealthier, deadlier and more far reaching than ever before, according to news sources.

A system's state is characterised as entangled or quantum correlated if two or more particles cannot be described as a combination of separate, independent states but only as a whole. Researchers at the Kirchhoff Institu...

Sizes and shapes of nuclei with more than 100 protons were so far experimentally inaccessible. Laser spectroscopy is an established technique in measuring fundamental properties of exotic atoms and their nuclei. For the ...

Physicists at the University of Bonn have succeeded in putting a superconducting gas into an exotic state. Their experiments allow new insights into the properties of the Higgs particle, but also into fundamental charact...

Pockets of fire continue to burn across a six-kilometre area of Saddleworth Moor today as 50 firefighters worked to contain the situation

A team headed by the TUM physicists Alexander Holleitner and Reinhard Kienberger has succeeded for the first time in generating ultrashort electric pulses on a chip using metal antennas only a few nanometers in size, the...