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The most common messenger RNA modification in mammals helps coordinate nerve cell response to memory inducting stimulus, a new study reveals.

Shipping for weevils PACHYRHYNCHUS WEEVILS are found on most islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean. If these weevils could fly, that would not be surprising. But they cannot. Why they are so widespread is therefore a myst...

In virtual reality, as far as our brains are concerned, it's quite possible to become an entirely different person. At VR Days Europe, an annual gathering of augmented and virtual reality professionals, Mel Slater, profe...

A breakthrough in controlling entanglement with laser or microwave pulses could let us make more accurate quantum computers without having to cool them down

A team of scientists, led by Professor Winfried Hensinger at the University of Sussex, have made a major breakthrough concerning one of the biggest problems facing quantum computing: how to reduce the disruptive effects ...

Researchers have identified how two types of neurons divide the labor to plan and initiate movements.

Ezogabine, an FDA approved anti-convulsant, appears to significantly reduce symptoms in those with major depressive disorder.

Using new technology to turn inflammation on and off in mice, researchers discover inflammation may contribute to sleep disorders.

New directed energy propulsion systems may enable the first interstellar missions, with small, robotic spacecraft exploring neighboring solar systems, according to experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin. He will present t...

Researchers have peeked behind the curtain of the ultrafast phase transition of vanadium dioxide and found its atomic theatrics are much more complicated than they thought. It's a material that has fascinated scientists ...

If a teen in your life is a big old science nerd, or just loves thinking and learning, we've got some great gift ideas to suggest.

IT IS A myth that, whatever his faults, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, made the trains run on time. He didn't. If even a man with dictatorial powers cannot enforce a railway timetable,...

SHIPPING IS A dirty business. Since the late 19th century, when steam replaced wind as the main means of propulsion, ships have relied on filthy fossil fuels. Coal-fired steam has given way to internal-combustion engines...

ACCORDING TO THE Saga of Erik the Red, "shipworm will not bore into the wood which has been smeared with the seal-tar". Viking scholars debate the precise meaning of "seal" in "seal-tar". One interpretation is that the S...

Those clumps of proteins that are a telltale sign of Parkinson's? Yeah, you have a lot of those in your appendix.

According to researchers, our first impressions of people's personalities may depend on their body shape.

A new study reports children who are subjected violence early in life experience faster biological aging, including earlier onset of puberty and epigenetic aging, than peers who are not abused. Additionally, children exp...

An ultrafast laser that fires pulses of light just 100 millionths of a nanosecond in duration could potentially revolutionize the way that NASA technicians manufacture and ultimately assemble instrument components made o...

People enjoy the misery of others for a few different reasons.

According to researchers, gut bacteria may regulate the neural circuits behind movement in fruit flies. Researchers say gut bacteria may play a similar role in controlling mammalian locomotion, and even movement disorder...

The US army is building a device that during a chemical attack will automatically identify the chemical agent and then inject an antidote

Air travel may actually be reducing the risk of a deadly pandemic. This is because its harder for new microbes to stay isolated and become incredibly lethal