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A new study reveals the cognitive and neurobiological processes that influence whether a person is likely to be a leader or follower.

Researchers shed light on the role dopamine neurons play in assigning values to transient environmental cues that drive behaviors.

Four scientists made the case Aug. 1 to a panel of senators that they should fund NASA's search for life beyond Earth.

A new study reports older people are less likely to recognize they have made errors than younger people.

The technology could improve future precision light sources. But right now the biggest surprise is how many holes there are in a laser figure-eight.

The energy-generating potential of solar panels--and a key limitation on their use--is a result of what they're made of. Panels made of silicon are declining in price such that in some locations they can provide electric...

A machine learning algorithm that predicts 60 per cent of football injuries is secretly being used by three top European teams to work out when to rest their players

It seems when smaller dogs urinate on objects they might be using this opportunity to deceive, by making it look like their mark was left by a bigger dog

Australian amateur astronomer Tom Harradine made an image of the century's longest lunar eclipse that reveals the true scale of the Earth's dark umbra.

Natural diamond is forged by tremendous pressures and temperatures deep underground. But synthetic diamond can be grown by nucleation, where tiny bits of diamond "seed" the growth of bigger diamond crystals. The same thi...

This newly discovered space-borne mineral is tough, but not that tough.

In recent years, more than a dozen people in the contiguous U.S. have been infected with the parasite known as "rat lungworm."

Ever since finding the remains of the "hobbits" -- a small-statured species of ancient human -- on the island of Flores in Indonesia, scientists have wondered whether the modern Pygmy people who now call the island home ...

Scientists from the Higher School of Economics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences have investigated how vortex flows penetrate the interior of a liquid. The authors of the art...

A Bose-Einstein condensate is a state of matter in which extremely cold atoms clump together and act as if they were a single atom.

A young man in Indiana who beat brain cancer as a teen has defied the odds yet again by surviving an often-fatal injury called internal decapitation.

In the world of elementary particles, traces of a potential "new physics" may be concealed in processes related to the decay of baryons. Analysis of data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider performed by...

Now, at least one type of bacteria in hospitals appears to be growing more tolerant to alcohol-based hand sanitizers, a new study from Australia suggests.

Earth might be getting bombarded by thousands of high-energy radio waves from deep space every day -- and scientists have no good explanation (yet).

Flesh-eating bacteria will become more prevalent with climate change.

(Boston College) Approximately 15 years ago, scientists first saw the potential of an engineered, bacteria-derived genetic machinery for incorporating non-canonical amino acids into proteins produced in eukaryotic cells....

(Montana State University) Roland Hatzenpichler, assistant professor in MSU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is leading a project to collect microbe-rich sediments from the floor of Guaymas Basin to study the ...