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Relief may be on the horizon for anyone who has ever jumped around a room like a jack-in-the-box to get motion-sensing lights to turn back on, thanks to a new motion sensor based on metamaterials that is sensitive enough...

Being able to grow new organs from a patient’s own cells could revolutionize both the safety and availability of transplants. Scientists have now overcome major hurdles in the realization of the technology--but in pigs...

An analysis of more than 580,000 heart attacks found that women are slightly less likely to die from a heart attack if they are seen by a female doctor

A new study links folic acid intake in pregnant women with epilepsy and language development in children. Researchers report among children whose mothers with epilepsy did not take folic acid, 34% had delayed language sk...

Researchers have discovered two distinct pathways through which a single molecule can cause both painful and itchy skin.

Rescuers still have not reached some devastated parts of the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok after a powerful earthquake flattened houses and toppled bridges

A new study reports male songbirds sing less to females during courtship if they have been exposed to low levels of SSRI antidepressants.

Here's a look at the tectonic plates that made the 7.0-magnitude earthquake possible.

Researchers reveal social activity and the activity of dopaminergic neurons contribute to individuality in mice.

A new study sheds light on the genetic basis of fox behaviors and, researchers say, the findings could have implications for human behavior. The study reports the SorCS1 gene contributes to social behaviors in foxes.

Radio jamming systems apparently thwarted an attempted presidential assassination with improvised drone bombs in Venezuela

Is social media really to blame for rises in self-harming? The evidence isn't clear, but some social media use may even be good for teenagers, says Tom Chivers

A faraway star surrounded by a strange cloud of dust and gas had an explosive rebirth, spitting out debris and dimming by a factor of 10,000 in less than 50 years

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is cyclical, switching from warm to cold phases every 20 years or so. When it switches again it could speed up Arctic warming

Producing radium isotopes to treat cancer could get easier. Researchers developed a method to recover medical radium isotopes. The process begins with the dissolved proton-irradiated thorium target solution. The process ...

Physicists have managed to create an experimental structure with a strong toroidal dipole response of the electromagnetic field over a wide frequency range. This response is associated with a special configuration of ele...

A new study reveals probiotic use can result in a significant accumulation of bacteria in the small intestine. Researchers say the bacterial accumulation can result in brain fogginess and significant belly bloating.

Drug data reveals that deaths from fentanyl, carfentanyl and cocaine are on the rise in England and Wales, but heroin and morphine deaths have declined slightly

The oldest igneous meteorite ever discovered may help scientists learn more about planet formation.

Parts of a Nazi-destroyed Jewish synagogue in Lithuania are seeing the light of day again after archaeologists unearthed the religious center's buried bimah, or central prayer platform, in a recent excavation.

Topology is a global aspect of materials, leading to fundamental new properties for compounds with large relativistic effects. The incorporation of heavy elements gives rise to non-trivial topological phases of matter, s...

Mammals that hibernate have smaller brains than those that don't, suggesting that hibernation limits brain size by reducing annual food intake