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(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Capitalizing on his vision of societal development based on sharing scientific knowledge, Professor Federico Rosei of INRS has devoted much of his career to providi...

A bizarre, blue asteroid that acts like a comet and appears to be responsible for the annual Geminid meteor shower made a close flyby of Earth last year, giving astronomers an opportunity to study the object in unprecede...

Going to space does more than change the way you look at the world -- it also changes your brain.

Researchers have identified a new target of alcohol in the brain. A new study reveals alcohol blocks the KCNK13 potassium channel within the membrane of dopamine releasing neurons in the ventral tegmental area.

Researchers present a new model of working memory which helps explain how the brain holds information and executes volitional control.

Researchers have identified the normal function of C9orf72, a gene commonly implicated in ALS and FTD.

Researchers have fabricated a new kind of air-filled optical fiber bundle that could greatly improve endoscopes used for medical procedures like minimally invasive surgeries or bronchoscopies. The new technology might al...

Cities are starting to experiment with banning cars from their streets and the benefits to health and well-being could be enormous

Army researchers have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior.

A survey posed ethical dilemmas to millions of people to help develop self-driving cars, but some worry the results could bake our biases into new technology

Researchers have discovered how the brain attempts to compensate for poor performance in tasks which require complicated transformation, such as writing your name backwards.

Could new findings explain why the universe is made of matter?

Male humpback whales often sing during mating season, but recordings from the Pacific suggest noise pollution from cargo ships is making them sing less

Researchers provide new evidence of brain plasticity. A new study reveals visual cortex neurons sprout new axons and shed some old ones as animals improve at perceptual learning tasks.

Hollywood is chockablock with movies about zombie apocalypses caused by some uncontrollable infection, while alarming real-world headlines proclaim the next superbug is just around the corner. It's a wonder we're not all...

A study suggests your skin tans most when you spend every other day out of the sun, which has the added effect of reducing DNA damage and premature ageing

An artificial intelligence has taught itself the basics of video game design by watching people play classic games and is now generating new ones of its own

A large simulation of a nerve agent attack last week tested a suite of advanced tools for diagnosing, treating and containing chemical and biological incidents

Broadband fiber-optics carry information on pulses of light, at the speed of light, through optical fibers. But the way the light is encoded at one end and processed at the other affects data speeds.

There's an eerie underwater sculpture park in the Pacific -- and you can thank the world's deepest volcanic eruption for it.

How long does it take to roll a twelve-hundred-ton detector one hundred feet? In late August, it took 10 hours for the STAR detector to roll from its regular spot in the interaction region of the Relativistic Heavy Ion C...

The High-Luminosity LHC has reached its halfway point. The second-generation LHC project was launched eight years ago and is scheduled to start up in 2026, eight years from now. From 15 to 18 October, the institutes cont...