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A new computational model increases the ability to track the spread of cancer throughout the body, researchers report.

Researchers have developed new neural implants that enable targeted delivery of drugs deep into brain structures.

Researchers have uncovered genetic interactions that modulate variable symptoms associated with ASD.

According to a new study, humans can use nonverbal vocal cues, including roars, to judge the physical formidability of others.

Researchers report on how specific neurons can process sensory information about temperature and facilitate a change in behavior to adapt to the climate.

Researchers are using big data and artificial intelligence to map neural networks in the brain. The new technology could help to better understand the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers say using social media services like Instagram and Snapchat to document your life may come at the cost of you being able to fully remember the events you documented.

Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that uses fMRI data to predict a person's intelligence.

About 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians buried two 12-year-olds -- a boy and a girl -- and surrounded their slender bodies with hundreds of bronze spearheads and what appears to be eight human sacrifices, a new study fi...

Two weeks ago, I gave my first virtual reality presentation--a virtual fireside chat with my friend Philip Rosedale, the CEO of High Fidelity and creator of Second Life. At the time, in conjunction with the event, my blo...

A second-hand SpaceX rocket has just launched a spherical robot to the International Space Station, where it will assist astronauts in a variety of tasks

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich physicists investigating spontaneous pattern formation in a model system that includes motile proteins have discovered hitherto unobserved phenomena. Their findings afford new insig...

The Australian Space Agency, which officially launches this week, has a modest budget but hopes to encourage start-ups to get in on the space gold rush

X, The Moonshot Factory tackles global problems with solutions so outlandish that they just might work.

A study measuring labia and clitoris size in hundreds of women has found they vary widely, potentially helping to curb rising cosmetic surgery rates

A tiny vial of gray powder produced at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the backbone of a new experiment to study the intense magnetic fields created in nuclear collisions.

The bacteria turned up in the waters of an irrigation canal in Yuma, Arizona.

A new species of bigger and super-fertile all-female crayfish originated almost instantaneously because of a genetic accident

Women who are overweight or smoke during pregnancy are more likely to have daughters who develop polycystic ovary syndrome, a nationwide study has found.

Gold never loses its lustre because it is so chemically unreactive, and now microscopic gold crystals have been made that are even less reactive

Gold never loses its lustre because it is so chemically unreactive, and now microscopic gold crystals have been made that are even less reactive

As good skeptics, we shouldn't immediately believe general relativity's tangle of mathematics at first blush. Instead, we need evidence. Good evidence.