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Over the past few years, we have seen the extraordinary development of neural prosthetic technologies that can replace or enhance functions of our central nervous system. For example, devices like brain-computer interfac...

Adversarial images that trick computers into seeing what isn't there are a big problem for AI - but mimicking human perception might provide a fix

Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers

Researchers report a gut-brain neural circuit establishes the vagus nerve as an essential component of the brain system that regulates reward and motivation.

Document shows he lied about his alterations --

A new study reveals human neural activation is different in response to different numbers. The findings demonstrate how we learn to handle number symbols in comparison to quantities.

A group of researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Peking University greatly improved the discrimination power of tracks from different particles passing through the gaseous detector with the help of deep conv...

Researchers report appetite signals cross a single synapse in under 100 milliseconds, relaying information from the gut to the brain much quicker than previously thought.

A new study reports babies born prematurely show better brain development when fed breast milk rather than formula.

Fat molecules show that a mystery creature that lived 558 million years ago was in fact an animal.

Physicists at The City College of New York have used atomically thin two-dimensional materials to realize an array of quantum emitters operating at room temperature that can be integrated into next generation quantum com...

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From observing celestial objects to medical imaging, the sensitive detection of X-rays plays a central role in countless applications. However, the methods used to detect them have undergone an interesting evolution of t...

The glob was an enormous lion's mane jellyfish.

The basking shark -- known for its languid, filter-feeding lifestyle -- has an Olympic-worthy secret: It can hurl its body out of the water just as fast and as high as its predatory cousin, the great white shark, a new s...

The building blocks of matter in our universe were formed in the first 10 microseconds of its existence, according to the currently accepted scientific picture. After the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, matter con...

A small robot could travel through your gut and collect mucus in a vacuum bag to help make diagnosing stomach diseases safer and less painful

Flat-Earthers try to explain the equinox, and the results are as odd as you'd expect.

Fearless crabs threaten the state's shellfish industry.

New 3-D maps of water distribution during cellular membrane fusion are accelerating scientific understanding of cell development, which could lead to new treatments for diseases associated with cell fusion. Using neutron...

Passing a gentle electric current through the abdomen encourages bowel movements in people with chronic constipation, a clinical trial has found

Being told not to remember something makes you less likely to remember it in future - and now a study has found this can happen without you even realising it