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Searching for signs of alien life should be part of every NASA mission, according to a new report.

(University of Hamburg) What if you could disrupt the crystalline order of quantum matter so that the superfluid could flow freely even at temperatures and pressures where it usually does not? This is indeed the idea tha...

Researchers report mice with epilepsy have alterations in neural pattern activity in an area of the brain that controls the reproductive endocrine system.

Study reveals both aerobic exercise and sitting in an upright posture improves visual working memory.

Researchers report high fat diet in female mice can have an epigenetic effect on future generations. The study found high fat diets had lead to an increased risk of obesity, insulin resistance and addictive behaviors ove...

A new study reveals verbal and physical signs of deception are harder to detect than people believe.

Heel pain felt during the first few steps in the morning might be plantar fasciitis, one of the most commonly diagnosed reasons for foot pain. Doctors have developed many treatment options that can help eliminate the pai...

Over the last decade, more than 750 supplement brands have been found to be tainted with drugs, but less than half were recalled.

Governments are one of the last strongholds of an undigitized, linear sector of humanity, and they are falling behind fast. Apart from their struggle to keep up with private sector digitization, federal governments are i...

Many neurodegenerative diseases spread by hijacking the brain's connective circuitry to transport toxic proteins, which gradually accumulate and trigger symptoms of dementias. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Tec...

A tiny Chinese satellite in lunar orbit is designed to accept commands from amateurs, and has captured a new view of the Earth and its moon

Researchers from NC State University have determined the probability of finding a gluon inside the pion. The Abstract sat down with graduate student and lead author Patrick Barry and his research advisor Chueng Ji, profe...

Russian physicists from MIPT teamed up with foreign colleagues for a groundbreaking experimental study of a material that possesses both superconducting and ferromagnetic properties. In their paper published in Science A...

For the first time, physicists have built a unique topological insulator in which optical and electronic excitations hybridize and flow together. They report their discovery in Nature.

A team of theorists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has solved a long-standing puzzle in the nucleation of a high-pressure phase of ice known as ice VII, which is believed to exist near the core of "oc...

What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers used at INRS produce ultrashort pulses in the femtosecond range (10-15 s), wh...

New research suggests that some victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Herculaneum died almost instantly from heat shock.

A new paper challenges the idea that many victims of Vesuvius were asphyxiated.

If we attach tiny magnets to fast-swimming algae, we can load them up with drugs and steer them deep into the human body to deliver targeted medical therapies

What do you call a moon that orbits another moon?

The US Marines are developing a laser weapon that can shout at people from 100 metres away. It can also be turned up to deafen, dazzle or cause painful burns

Over 60 percent of people in the U.S. with European ancestry can probably be matched to at least a third cousin through genealogy databases