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Australian scientists have achieved a new milestone in their approach to creating a quantum computer chip in silicon, demonstrating the ability to tune the control frequency of a qubit by engineering its atomic configura...

In a recent Nature Sustainability paper, a team of scientists concluded that the Earth can sustain, at most, only 7 billion people at subsistence levels of consumption (and this June saw us at 7.6 billion). Achieving “...

Researchers investigate why so many people are hooked on the thrill of roller coaster riding.

Researchers have unlocked a cure for jet lag by activating VIP neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

According to researchers, vision and brain circuits perform regular background scans, making neurons available for focus based tasks. The process makes it possible for us to pay, and maintain, attention.

By the time typical symptoms of Parkinson's appear and patients are diagnosed with the disease, 60% of people experience significant damage to the heart's connections to the sympathetic nervous system. Researchers have i...

Theoretical physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have just released the most precise prediction of how subatomic particles called muons--heavy cousi...

Researchers report neurogenesis underlies the brain's capacity to create and store new memories. Exercise, researchers report, promotes neurogenesis and increases hippocampal capacity.

Minuscule machines that act as sensors in smartphones and other devices can be made from crystals extracted from discarded wood instead of silicon

An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter--constraints that can help identify t...

Friday the 13th is what you make it, and it's OK if you think it's unlucky.

Wounds and burns could one day be treated by the material spiders use to make their webs

Ireland is set to become the first country to sell off all its investments in fossil fuels, but efforts to limit global warming must go much further

The first brain-scanning study to track activity in the brain's decision-making centres during gambling shows fluctuations in dopamine levels affect risk-taking

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have constructed a first-of-its-kind optic isolator based on resonance of light waves on a rapidly rotating glass sphere. This is the first photonic device in wh...

Heavy eyes, snappish words, bitter feelings? You can thank your cells for making you feel this way.

Governments and employers can still snoop on you when you use Chrome's Incognito Mode or other private browsers, but many people don't know this

In an ancient heap of Roman rubble, archaeologists in Greece discovered a clay tablet engraved with 13 lines of Homer's epic poem.

After keeping it to himself for a while, this farmer finally let the world know about his amazing discovery.

A quake in Mexico had a surprisingly positive outcome for archaeologists.

The FDA just approved a drug for a disease that no longer exists...well, sort of.

Did humans evolve from one population in Africa? Probably not.