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We're all probably trapped in a "Matrix"-like pseudo existence, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said early Friday (Sept. 7) during a long, wide-ranging and very entertaining appearance on comedian Joe Rogan's podcast.

According to researchers, probiotics may not be as effective as most believe. Researchers report many people's digestive tracts prevent standard probiotics from successfully colonizing them.

Astrophysicists have gotten a better glimpse at what happens to crashing neutron stars by listening in on the electromagnetic echoes of the collision. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

Researchers implicate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in in our ability to actively forget a memory.

While most interaction with digital content is still constrained to keyboards and 2-D touch panels, augmented and virtually reality (AR/VR) technologies promise ever more freedom from these limitations.

Recently, I picked up Kai-Fu Lee's newest book, AI Superpowers. Kai-Fu Lee is one of the most plugged-in AI investors on the planet, managing over $2 billion between six funds and over 300 portfolio companies in the US a...

Researchers report exercise can promote adult hippocampal neurogenesis and improve cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. The study identifies ways to mimic the beneficial effects of experience through pharmac...

OLM cells in the hippocampus play a key role in risk taking behavior and anxiety, researchers report.

A new study examines the relationship between brain function and the impact of life events on depressive symptoms.

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), one of the giants of contemporary science, considered entanglement the most interesting property in quantum mechanics. In his view, it was this phenomenon that truly dis...

A UPenn bioengineer disputes a recent New York Times report suggesting that microwaves accounted for what occurred at the U.S. embassy in Havana --

A persistent myth about milk -- that drinking it can lead to the production of more gooey mucus in your body's airways -- is completely false, a new review finds.

Researchers are testing whether a genital warts cream could also help boost protection from flu vaccines in the case of a pandemic.

How did a squash-size tumor grow in this woman's uterus?

Thieves recently made off with 7,000 bugs and lizards from a Philadelphia museum.

She had what's called a "black hairy tongue."

These fishermen netted a gigantic surprise catch.

(University of Bristol) Researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that resident artificial cells abandon their protocell hosts by displaying antagonistic behavior on receiving a chemical signal.

(The Optical Society) Researchers in Japan and Belgium has begun to explore a combination of holography and light field technologies as a way to reduce the size and cost of more people-friendly AR/VR devices.

(RUDN University) RUDN biochemists suggested a new mechanism following which a human body prevents the development of autoimmune diseases (i.e. conditions caused by the damaging influence of the immune system on a body's...

(Ural Federal University) The grant of the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research was awarded to the scientists of the Institute of Chemical Engineering of Ural Federal University for the project "Directional design...

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