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Slowly flapping its orange and black wings, a monarch butterfly sips liquid from a patch of mud. Its proboscis - the mouthpart that sucks up liquids - grazes the damp soil. For years, biologists knew that butterflies dre...

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) For some time now, in the data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, several anomalies have been seen in the decays of...

A collaboration between scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main has computationally predicted a number of unique prop...

Gene editing has improved muscle function in dogs that have the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy in people, and could lead to new treatments

A new study reports personality traits can help protect an individual's brain against symptoms of emotional distress, such as anxiety and depression.

Researchers report dendritic learning leads to a universal phenomenon that all brains are composed of the same wide spectrum of links.

The data revolution is under way, and data has impacted how we buy, work, live--even how we love. But there's one field that remains largely unaffected, and that's statistics--or, ironically enough, data itself. Accordin...

Using a single pixel camera and Terahertz electromagnetic waves, a team of Physicists at the University of Sussex have devised a blueprint which could lead to the development of airport scanners capable of detecting expl...

Close encounters with medium-size black holes can reanimate dead stars, if only momentarily, a new study suggests.

Guillain-Barre syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which a person's own immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system.

If it becomes possible to make dozens of changes to DNA, future generations could live much longer before they succumb to diseases of old age such as cancer

Hold your breath LIVING under thick layers of smog is known to cause illness and reduce life expectancy. The degree to which pollution harms the mind is less clear. In theory some of the toxins that get inhaled could dam...

EXCITING results from a scientific study are in effect meaningless if they cannot be replicated. All too often, at least in psychology experiments, that seems to be the case. A new report by a scientist who looks at this...

SOFTWARE that can learn is changing the world, but it needs supervision. Humans provide such oversight in two ways. The first is to show machine-learning algorithms large sets of data that describe the task at hand. Labe...

A team of semiconductor researchers based in France has used a boron nitride separation layer to grow indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cells that were then lifted off their original sapphire substrate and placed onto...

"Spintronics" holds promise for new types of devices for information processing and data storage, with ones and zeros being stored in the spin state of electrons as well as their electric charge. Such devices could be fa...

Sure, your clock is keeping time -- but to what?

A report by The Children's Society claims one in four teenage girls in the UK are self-harming, but the reality is probably more nuanced

Skywatchers across Western Australia caught sight of an incredible fireball on Tuesday night (Aug. 28), and many were lucky enough to capture the spectacle on film.

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and one in Russia has devised two new ways to measure the gravitational constant. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes th...

Some misfit galaxies don't seem to conform to our standard model of the universe, but it may be because star formation and supernovae push dark matter around

The hybrids could harbor more robust genes that allow them to adapt to various types of environments.