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(George Washington University) The study published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests the thalamus controls the development of state dependency and continuity.

Researchers report becoming overweight at an early age can trigger the early onset of puberty in females.

RUDN mathematicians analyzed the properties of gravitational waves in a generalized affine-metrical space (an algebraic construction operating on the notions of a vector and a point) similarly to the properties of electr...

About 85 million years ago, when a vast sea covered Kansas, a wee, little sea monster died almost immediately after it was born.

(University of Delaware) What if your theory to model and predict the electronic structure of atoms isn't accounting for dispersion energy? You come up with some 'fudge factors' to make it all work. But getting the right...

(American Chemical Society) Tardigrades are tiny animals that can live in water droplets just about anywhere. When those water droplets dry out, tardigrades undergo an astonishing transformation to survive the lack of wa...

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) With the aid of simple theoretical models it is possible to build systems operating strictly according to the rules of classical physic...

Countries need to start a massive programme of retrofitting old homes to make them carbon neutral if the world is to meet the global emission reduction target

Researchers have successfully transplanted human brain cells into mouse brains and watched how they grow to form networks. The technique could be used to study a range of neurological conditions, the researchers report.

A note the physicist wrote in 1954 reveals his thinking on religion and science --

Researchers have made a surprise discovery that could help provide treatment options for a range of conditions from Parkinson's disease to depression. Researching how to transform supportive brain cells into neurons, the...

Researchers have discovered the thalamus plays a crucial role in the development of normal sleep and waking states.

Adults with ADHD feel empowered performing creative tasks that can help them with a job, researchers report.

Consumer genetic databases are becoming powerful tools for identifying criminals, and a new technique could link you to forensic data held by US police

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has crash landed after an attempted launch to the International Space Station, which may throw a wrench in space flight plans

A new study reports T cells are activated in the intestines and migrate to the brain, causing an inflammatory cascade that may lead to multiple sclerosis. Researchers say the gut microbiome may play a more significant ro...

We talked to a food scientist.

Simulated robots can learn to control their bodies in many creative ways, and now they can also build the best limbs for crossing through an obstacle course

Each time there's a headline about driverless trucking technology, another piece is taken out of the old equation. First, an Uber/Otto truck's safety driver went hands-off once the truck reached the highway (and said tru...

We are getting better at creating mice with same-sex parents but we are still nowhere near the point at which this could be attempted in people

Peer into nature with these amazing images from the Nikon Small World microphotography prize. They include a bug bubble house and the eye of a weevil

IN 1996 the European Union became the first significant political body to suggest that the goal of preventing "dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate", to which the world had signed on at the Rio Earth summi...