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A new study reports genetic factors count for about 70% of stable academic achievement throughout schooling.

A new study reports women who have experienced sexual violence have more vivid memories than women coping with other traumatic experiences. Sexual violence survivors, researchers report, have more intense memories decade...

After just one sleep deprived night, the ability of the liver to produce glucose and insulin is altered, increasing the risk of developing metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, researchers report.

A site in France is home to the biggest ancient watermill complex ever found, and the flour it milled may have been used to make ship biscuits

According to a new study those with higher criminal tendencies choose to take risks and gamble more than law abiding citizens.

Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the "teleportation" of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand.

Researchers report cannabis users exhibit increased synchrony in cortical regions during resting state than those nonusers. The study also reports cannabis users show greater cortical communication in the frontal regions...

The famous Great Red Spot has a blue rival created by the planet's weird magnetic field - though the name is a bit of a cheat

Vehicles that run on hydrogen have been dismissed by the likes of Elon Musk, but recent advances mean they are making a comeback

Reduced entropy in a three-dimensional lattice of super-cooled, laser-trapped atoms could help speed progress toward creating quantum computers. A team of researchers at Penn State can rearrange a randomly distributed ar...

Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation, a treatment commonly administered for bladder dysfunction, appears to improve sexual response in women who suffer female sexual dysfunction.

Researchers report different brain areas are activated when a guitarists and beatboxers hear previously unheard tracks by their instrument of choice. Beatboxers, researchers say, show increased activation in brain areas ...

A plane arriving in New York from Dubai was quarantined after a number of passengers onboard became sick, according to news reports.

What was matter like moments after the Big Bang? Particles emerging from the lowest energy collisions of small particles with large heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) could hold the answer. Scient...

Saturn just keeps getting weirder.

When Mustafa Şahin first saw photographs of the submerged ancient church under the waves of Turkey's Lake Iznik, he couldn't quite believe what he was seeing.

A 1,600-year-old Christian church covered by the waters of Turkey's Lake Iznik is giving up some of its secrets to archaeologists.

A Japanese research team led by The University of Tokyo investigated the fragile-to-strong transition of water. Unlike most liquids, when water is cooled, the rate of increase of its viscosity reaches a maximum at a cert...

Some Russian officials are saying a homesick astronaut may have drilled a hole in the ISS, but the real culprit is probably back on the ground

One of the largest elephant slaughters in Africa just took place, new aerial footage reveals.

Traces of ancient cheeses hint at the timeline for human migration into Europe.

Antibiotic "cocktails" can be promising or disappointing, based on complex interactions