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The Russian attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the country's continuing election-related hacking have happened across all three dimensions of cyberspace - physical, informational and cognitive.

Researchers report, following a lobectomy, the left hemisphere of the brain compensated for visual tasks in a young boy. The findings, researchers say, provide a detailed characterization of plasticity in the developing ...

A new study reports women who make hateful remarks on social media are more likely to be judged more severely than men who make the same comments.

Researchers shed new light on the role the insula and frontoparietal brain regions play in a child's working memory.

"Miss Helen" is doing swimmingly after a harrowing brush with kidnappers.

Women are being warned that so-called "vaginal rejuvenation" procedures may pose serious risks.

A report on NASA's plans to stop funding the International Space Station by 2024 reveals that crucial studies on human spaceflight won't be done in time

Unique bacterial communities exist on most Hong Kong subway train lines in the morning, but these merge during the day, also spreading antibiotic resistance

A boy had a third of his right brain hemisphere removed to treat his epilepsy. His brain has now rearranged itself, preventing any cognitive impairment

Sometimes teenage rebellion means going for a degree in physics. Although Jim Hanhardt originally planned to become a theoretical chemist, his life took a turn when he developed a love for motorcycles. Shortly after, he ...

If you've ever juggled a situation where two arms aren't enough, you're in luck! Thanks to a new study published in Science Robotics, humans have the ability to mind-control a robotic arm on a task--while using their bio...

Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues. While previous research reported that each of the different muscles controls one acoustic feature, new research sho...

Researchers report we recognize what we are looking at by combining current stimuli with comparison to images stored in memory.

What makes it possible for our eyes to see? It stems from a reaction that occurs when photons come into contact with a protein in our eyes, called rhodopsin, which adsorbs the photons making up light.

Properties, sources and uses of the element radon.

Fusion power plants promise nearly unlimited climate-friendly energy and scientists worldwide cooperate to reach this goal. A little known aspect of this highly specialized field of research concerns diamond which is in ...

Symtpoms, causes and treatments for macular degeneration.

Unmarked graves can be difficult and time-consuming to find, but scanning with pulses of laser light could help us pinpoint where the bodies are buried

A team of Italian physicists has used economic complexity theory to produce five-year gross domestic product (GDP) estimates for several countries around the world. In their paper published in the journal Nature Physics,...

Consider, for a moment, the paper cut. It happens suddenly and entirely unexpectedly, usually just as you are finally getting somewhere on that task you had been putting off.

When doctors examined the man's eyes, they saw something odd.

Where are all the aliens? Scientists have some ... unusual theories.