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Researchers report polarized phosphorylation of shootin 1 within growth cones is required for the directional axon guidance induced by netrin-1 gradients.

A newborn in England surprised her parents -- and her doctors -- when they saw that the infant was born with a tiny tooth, according to news reports.

400 kilometers above Earth, researchers examined waves in complex plasma under microgravity conditions and found that the microparticles behaved in nonuniform ways in the presence of varying electrical fields. They repor...

Researchers examine typical eating habits after a night of drinking.

There's a literal disturbance in the force that alters what physicists have long thought of as a characteristic of superconductivity, according to Rice University scientists.

A new study MEG study reveals our ability to learn during slow wave sleep is limited.

A new study, which involved a small sample of former professional athletes, found no evidence of early onset dementia.

Computational neurosciences have created a virtual version of Purkinje cells in the brain's cerebellum. The virtual cells may shed light on how Purkinje cells work.

A new study reveals a short time meditating can help to boost cognitive performance. Researchers report students exposed to a ten minute meditation tape were able to complete simple cognitive tasks more quickly and accur...

As sound waves travel, they float upwards away from the pull of gravity. That's because they have negative mass, so they're repelled by massive objects

In nature, the nuclear reactions that form stars are often accompanied by astronomically high amounts of energy, sometimes over billions of years. This presents a challenge for nuclear astrophysicists trying to study the...

CAR-T is the super-soldier serum of cell therapy: you pluck out an immune cell soldier, inject it with a dose of new genes, and send the enhanced cell back into the host body--bam! Suddenly the host has a slew of Captain...

Power plants are shutting down in the northern hemisphere due to a lack of cool water, and the problem will only get worst in a warming and drier world

The Mendocino Complex Fire has burned 283,800 acres of land and destroyed nearly 200 structures.

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is advancing technology commonly used in dark matter experiments--and scaling it up to record-breaking sizes. It's an exciting time in particle physics. Puzzles abound. There are ...

Researchers from ITMO University developed and tested an MRI coil providing high-resolution imaging of the whole body of a mouse. Such coils are used in preclinical testing, as well as in imaging of various body systems....

In London this September, Juliane Kaminski will be arguing that dogs have spent so long living alongside humans that they have evolved to think just like us

This 13th-century bible circled back to where it stood nearly 500 years ago

The universe's rate of expansion is in dispute, and we may need new physics to solve it.

Plasmonic waveguides open the possibility to develop dramatically miniaturized optical devices and provide a promising route towards the next generation of integrated nanophotonic circuits for information processing, opt...

A tick species that's native to Asia has now spread to the United States, and it's popping up in numerous places along the East Coast, according to U.S. officials.

Climate scientists have shied away from attributing heatwaves and floods to global warming - but now there can be no more denying the facts