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Last month, a team of self-taught AI gamers lost spectacularly against human professionals in a highly-anticipated galactic melee. Taking place as part of the International Dota 2 Championships in Vancouver, Canada, the ...

Researchers say we constantly create false memories to help us achieve the identity we want.

A new study reports the brains of baby boys born prematurely are affected differently and more severely than premature females.

Using AI technology, researchers provide new insight into how the human brain connects individual episodic memories to help solve problems.

A new study reveals cannabinoid medications may not reduce pain itself, but instead make pain feel less unpleasant and more tolerable.

Researchers report plasticity is dysregulated in older brains, but increasing levels of GABA can induce longer lasting changes in the auditory cortex.

Milks made from peas, nuts and more are taking supermarket shelves by storm. Here's what you should be drinking if you care about your health and the environment

Researchers report learning rates are enhanced when conditioned stimuli is presented during resting phase of the cardiac cycle.

On International Talk Like a Pirate Day, here's an eye-patch-witness account of how science helps in all peg-leg walks of life, even piracy --

Dysfunctional, or 'senescent', brain cells can drive brain degeneration - and killing them saved mice from further damage and memory loss

Researchers have developed a light-based technique for measuring very weak magnetic fields, such as those produced when neurons fire in the brain. The inexpensive and compact sensors could offer an alternative to the mag...

Famous for raising hopes of riches beyond imagination--and then dashing them--the mineral pyrite is better known as fool's gold. Its metallic yellow luster has fooled many over the years, with consequences that helped sh...

Researchers debate the growing use of tES to enhance creativity, concluding there is a potential value in brain stimulation. However, researchers say, the use of tES raises a number of neuroethical, legal and social issu...

Matter is made of elementary particles, and the Standard Model of particle physics states that these particles occur in two families: leptons (such as electrons and neutrinos) and quarks (which make up protons and neutro...

Medicines that record when they have been taken are already being prescribed. Ethical issues must be addressed, say I. Glenn Cohen and Alex Pearlman

The field of optical microscopy research has developed rapidly in recent years. Thanks to the invention of a technique called super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, it has recently become possible to view even the sma...

The Earth's magnetosphere contains plasma, an ionized gas composed of positive ions and negative electrons. The motion of these charged plasma particles is controlled by electromagnetic fields. The energy transfer proces...

"Star Trek's" planet Vulcan, ancestral home of Spock and his species, just became a little more real, thanks to a team of exoplanet scientists.

A disciplined schedule may benefit some students, but there's more to success at school and in later life than turning up on time, says Michael Brooks

In a multi-“cat” experiment the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim --

In a multi-“cat” experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim --

These noodles of neutrons may be 10 billion times stronger than steel.