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(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) Most physicists believe that the structure of spacetime is formed in an unknown way in the vicinity of the Planck scale, i.e. at distan...

Commercial crops like grapes, peaches, berries and flower bulbs all go dormant in the winter, essentially sleeping through the seasonal cold before they resume growing, flowering and fruiting again in the warmer months.

Researchers have identified a new rule of connectivity for neurons in the neocortex, contradicting the popular belief "neurons that fire together, wire together".

A new method for studying the mircobiome has allowed researchers to identify a connection between metabolism in gut bacteria and the development of diabetes.

Fifteen ancient human genomes reveal how people first spread through the Americas - and strengthen a mysterious link between people in the Amazon and in Australasia

More than 1 in 200 children have serious developmental disorders but we've only been able to find the genetic cause of half of them

A new study reveals common brain activity patterns associated with depressive moods.

Researchers have identified abnormalities in specific neural networks that may be a biomarker to predict the risk of developing schizophrenia.

A new EEG study reveals that, during sleep, the brain still processes and stores auditory information.

Fluids exhibiting scaling behaviour can be found in diverse physical phenomena occurring both in the laboratory and in real-world conditions. For instance, they occur at the critical point when a liquid becomes a vapour,...

No interstellar travel movie is complete without hibernators. From Prometheus to Passengers, we've watched protagonists awaken in hibernation pods, rebooting their fragile physiology from a prolonged state of suspended a...

Physicist Kira Burt dropped out of school at 16. Now she teaches students that anyone can be a scientist. At the age of 16, Kira Burt dropped out of high school in Spokane, Washington, and started working odd jobs in foo...

By using an X-ray technique available at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), scientists found that the metal-insulator transition in the correlated material magnetite is a two-step process. The researcher...

For several decades, particle physicists have been trying to better understand nature at the smallest distances by colliding particles at the highest energies. While the Standard Model of particle physics has successfull...

Björn Alling, researcher in theoretical physics at Linköping University, has, together with his colleagues, completed the task given to him by the Swedish Research Council in the autumn of 2014: Find out what happens i...

Saturn's moon Enceladus might host life, and Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner is planning the first private mission to deep space to find out more

Saturn's moon Enceladus might host life, and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is planning the first private mission to deep space to find out more

The way in which a statistic is presented can entirely change how alarming it sounds. And too often, both newspapers and scientific journals choose the most alarming, but least informative, way

NASA went back and looked at how that weirdly square iceberg formed. What they found surprised them.

Excited photo-emitters can cooperate and radiate simultaneously, a phenomenon called superfluorescence. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, together with colleagues from IBM Research Zurich, have recently been able to ...

Remarkable rules have been detected in the apparent chaos of disequilibrium processes. Different systems behave identically in many ways, if they belong to the same "universality class." This means that experiments can b...

People genetically linked to the Clovis culture, one of the earliest continentwide cultures in North America, made it down to South America as far back as 11,000 years ago. Then they mysteriously vanished around 9,000 ye...