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To protect the confidentiality of a message during its transmission, people encrypt it. However, noise in the transmission channels can be a source of concern regarding how faithful the message transmission may be after ...

The top quark is a unique particle due to its phenomenally high mass. It decays in less than 10 to 24 seconds, before it has time to interact with any other particles. Therefore, many of its quantum numbers, such as its ...

Researchers have developed a new computer system that mimics the brain's neural networks. The advance could shed new light into neural processing and assist with research into brain disorders.

For the first time, high blood pressure later in life has been linked to Alzheimer's disease, a finding that might help us better understand the condition

Researchers report horses tend to snort more when they are in positive emotional situations. The findings suggest snorts are reliable indicators of positive emotions in horses.

Researchers report boys on the autism spectrum tend to have lower fractal dimension in the right side of the cerebellum than those without autism.

If you want to get the greatest benefit from a beam of light--whether to detect a distant planet or remedy an aberration in the human eye--you need to be able to measure its beam front information.

Researchers challenge a recent study that claims feeding babies solid foods early may help them to sleep better.

A pioneering treatment has allowed deaf gerbils to perceive light as sound, raising hope for sophisticated optogenetic implants to relieve hearing loss

A new study reveals people with schizophrenia have a disrupted stress response. Researchers report those with schizophrenia have an increase in dopamine release in the striatum, but not in the prefrontal cortex, in respo...

Researchers have identified a dual role for a gene associated with sleep and wakefulness regulation.

Lawmakers want to clamp down on automated social media accounts before they affect elections, but innocent and benign bots could get caught in the crossfire

It's easy to mock Elon Musk's very public brand of techno-utopianism but the world needs engineering icons like him, says Mark Harris

Facebook is training its AI to learn to understand the world by asking questions in English - and can now navigate its way around New York

Time to end the scare over hundreds of headless pets that sparked a police inquiry and much anguish among cat owners, says Stephen Harris

A new study reveals children who are habitually barefoot show significantly different motor skills between the ages of 6-10 than those who are habitually shod. Researchers report those who are habitually barefoot have be...

We've had the best look yet at the microbes that make themselves at home in our bodies in the months following birth, including many mystery species

Watch a rocket launch rip a rainbow to shreds, thanks to the incredibly loud sound it produces.

Take a quick look at this trout swimming upstream. Notice anything unusual? Image credit:Beal, et al.Passive propulsion in vortex wakes.Journal of Fluid Mechanics You've probably seen something similar countless times; t...

Concerns about the effects of magnetic fields on human health require careful monitoring of our exposure to them. Mandatory exposure limits have been defined for electric and hybrid vehicle architectures, in domestic and...

Physicists are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cosmological constant. On this occasion, two papers recently published in EPJ H highlight its role in modern physics and cosmology. Although the term was first ...

Physicists have demonstrated that Parrondo's paradox--an apparent paradox in which two losing strategies combine to make a winning strategy--can emerge as a coin game with a single coin in the quantum realm, but only whe...