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Leiden physicist Milan Allan and his group have discovered an apparent paradox within a material that has zero electrical resistance. They report trapped charges, although charges should, in theory, keep flowing in the a...

A new conjecture is the cause of excitement in the string theory community. Timm Wrase of the Vienna University of Technology has now published his much-discussed results on recent new developments.

WUSTL researchers have developed a new, implantable and biodegradable device that delivers pulses of electrical activity to damaged peripheral nerves in rats, helping the animals to regrow nerves and improve nerve functi...

Researchers have successfully created the most detailed map of the hippocampus, an area of the brain implicated in memory. The map shows the structure, neural connections and functions in vivid detail.

Materials scientists at Duke University computationally predicted the electrical and optical properties of semiconductors made from extended organic molecules sandwiched by inorganic structures.

A new neuroimaging study of people watching the movie Forrest Gump reveals the hippocampus is sensitive to meaningful units of experience, rather than perceptual cues.

According to researchers, regular use of the popular clubbing drug, GBH, can have negative effects on brain networks associated with both long term and working memory. Additionally, frequent use of the drug is associated...

Pregnant women with a history of bipolar disorder have a difficult time recognizing specific emotions in facial expressions, a new study reveals.

Researchers have identified a set of neurons, located in a region of the hypothalamus, that may be the switch that turns the brain off, allowing for sleep. The neurons are also tied to body temperature regulation.

Materials scientists have sussed out the physical phenomenon underlying the promising electrical properties of a class of materials called superionic crystals. A better understanding of such materials could lead to safer...

Optical frequency combs can enable ultrafast processes in physics, biology, and chemistry, as well as improve communication and navigation, medical testing, and security. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 was awarded to th...

Landing on Jupiter's moon Europa will be even harder than we thought due to a forbidding belt of huge ice spikes that could trap or incapacitate a spacecraft

Openly negative and critical people are often elected leaders, perhaps because we perceive their disregard for social niceties as a sign of power and independence

A special report on limiting global warming to 1.5°C has been released. Get caught up on why it matters

A team of researchers with the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and The University of Tokyo, both in Japan, has found a way to force a metal to be a superconductor by cooling it very quickly. In their paper publi...

Capsules that are programmed to vibrate when they reach the large intestine have been shown to stimulate bowel contractions and relieve chronic constipation

Neutron diffraction strain scanning measurements at ANSTO have validated a new theoretical model that successfully predicts the residual stresses and critical deposition heights for laser additive manufacturing.

The geyser spewed up an old cinderblock and a pacifier from the 1930s, among other things.

Six children in Minnesota have been diagnosed with a rare illness that resembles polio, according to news reports.

Christopher Columbus famously sailed the ocean blue in 1492, so why isn't the New World named after him?

The far-right winner of the first round of Brazil's presidential election wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and cut down the Amazon rainforest

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been temporarily shut down as technical faults have hampered its ability to point in the right direction