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The paraventricular thalamus helps the brain identify and track the most salient details of a situation, helping to enhance learning, a new study reveals.

Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural His...

Researchers report LSD triggers a reduction in functional connection between areas of the brain that govern cognitive processes, while increasing connectivity in brain networks associated with sensory functions.

ESP22, a substance found in a baby's tears, makes female mice more likely to reject male sexual advances, researchers report.

A Florida woman will probably never forget her honeymoon in Belize, but not for the usual reasons

East Island in Hawaii is no more.

A theoretical concept to realize quantum information processing has been developed by Professor Guido Burkard and his team of physicists at the University of Konstanz. The researchers have found ways to shield electric a...

Mathematics produced by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, has been used to help simplify calculations used by particle physicists

Using laser technology Empa scientists optimized a technique to weld the electronics of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators into a titanium case. The medtech company Medtronic is now using the method worldwide to p...

New book "True or Poo?" explores a range of riveting animal repulsiveness.

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Aalto University in Finland, and ETH Zurich have demonstrated a prototype device that uses quantum effects and machine learning to measure magnetic ...

The Picts, a fierce group of people who lived in Scotland during ancient and medieval times may have developed their own written language.

Here's a look at mysterious circles etched into the desert of southern Peru.

A NIMS-Ehime University joint research team succeeded in discovering new materials that exhibit superconductivity under high pressure using materials informatics (MI) approaches (data science-based material search techni...

Sunshine seems to prevent babies from getting eczema and is more effective than vitamin D supplements, but moderation is advised due to the risk of skin damage

An engineer and writer noticed a secretive military base in Nevada hadn't been updated on Google Maps for 8 years. They took care of that without any Google help.

These 18 volcanoes in the U.S. could lead to mass death and destruction.

The DESY accelerator facility in Hamburg, Germany, goes on for miles to host a particle making kilometer-long laps at almost the speed of light. Now researchers have shrunk such a facility to the size of a computer chip.

Archaeologists have discovered 19 anthropomorphic wooden idols, some of them wearing beige clay masks on their faces, in the ancient city of Chan Chan, Peru, according to the country's Ministry of Culture.

(University of Granada) The EnChroma® glasses, commercialized by a North American company, do not improve color vision for color blind people or correct their color blindness, and their effect is similar to that of othe...

(University of New South Wales) UNSW fruit fly research challenges neutral theory of molecular evolution and suggests one day we may be prescribed diets according to our genes.

(College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) The Power Sector Carbon Index, developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems tracks the environmental performance of US power producers ...