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In Goethe's poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," made world-famous by its adaptation in Disney's Fantasia, a lazy apprentice, left to fetch water, uses magic to bewitch a broom into performing his chores for him. Now, new r...

Solar-powered sensors are listening in to rainforests in Borneo to check on biodiversity. One plan is to use AI to identify different animal calls

Magnetic reconnection, the snapping apart and violent reconnection of magnetic field lines in plasma--the state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei--occurs throughout the universe and can whip up space...

Contrary to popular belief, researchers report infants who co-sleep in their parent's bedroom do not experience an increased risk of developing behavioral problems later in childhood. The study reports there are benefici...

Researchers report, for those with a genetic mutation that causes Alzheimer's disease, 2.5 hours of physical activity per week may delay cognitive decline and have beneficial effects on tau in the brain. They speculate t...

Researchers report a sudden drop in glucose when we are hungry can negatively impact our mood.

A new study reports participating in light physical activity, such as yoga or tai chi, can help to increase connectivity between brain areas responsible for memory formation and storage.

Researchers report the medial prefrontal cortex calibrates current visual information with previously obtained information to help us perceive the world with more stability, helping to retain visual consistency as we bli...

Particle physicists and astrophysicists employ a variety of tools to avoid erroneous results. In the 1990s, an experiment conducted in Los Alamos, about 35 miles northwest of the capital of New Mexico, appeared to find s...

Could targeting ancient viruses lead to better interventions?

Historic records reveal how shockwaves from massive bombs altered the ionosphere 1000 kilometres from Germany and 300 kilometres above Earth

Scientists at Radboud University discovered a new mechanism for magnetic storage of information in the smallest unit of matter: a single atom. While the proof of principle was demonstrated at very low temperatures, this ...

Critics are weary.

In any seemingly quiet pond the still waters actually teem with tiny pond dwellers called Euglena gracilis. Unseen to the naked eye, the single-celled organism spirals through the water, pulled along a relatively straigh...

So far, gravitational waves have found no hints of extra dimensions, but there may still be some really tiny ones lurking out there.

A new study suggests that with the help of nutritional counseling and a smartphone app, pregnant women who are overweight or obese can safely restrict their weight gain.

The inventor of the brain-teasing Möbius strip died 150 years ago, but his creation continues to spawn new ideas in mathematics.

The world's largest bird -- a newly identified species of elephant bird -- weighed as much as a dinosaur when it strutted around Madagascar more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds.

A story of apparent tragedy and luck is making its way around the Internet, describing how a fig seed in a murdered man's stomach grew into a tree, which later helped authorities find his corpse almost 40 years later in ...

A resurgence of syphilis in the United States has led to a dramatic spike in cases of the disease among newborns, according to a new report.

A freedom of information request has revealed how UK civil servants use Slack, a popular chat service, to talk about everything from Pokémon Go to polyamory

These volunteers quaffed blood for a good cause.