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A reflection always reproduces objects as a complete mirror image, rather than just its individual parts or individual parts in a completely different orientation. It's all or nothing, the mirror can't reflect just a lit...

Earthworms are always clean, even if they come from moist, sticky soil. They owe this to a dirt-repellent, lubricating layer, which forms itself again and again on its skin. Researchers at INM have now artificially recre...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have developed a uranium-based complex that allows nitrogen fixation reactions to take place in ambient conditions. The work lays the foundation to develop new...

Jamaica was once home to a sloth-like monkey - now we know it was a strange descendant of South America's titi monkeys that adapted to island life

Researchers report exercise helps improve overall health and mental health.

Study reports audiovisual editing causes an increase in activity in visual processing areas, while continuous and orderly editing produces more cognitive processing activity.

Researchers have identified a new fluorescent protein that makes it possible for live neurons to glow red when activated.

A new study reports klotho, a protein associated with longevity, acts as a gatekeeper that helps shield the brain from the peripheral immune system.

Sealed in a vault beneath a duke's former pleasure palace among the sycamore-streaked forests west of Paris sits an object the size of an apple that determines the weight of the world.

Researchers have identified specific points on chromosome 11 that increase the risks of developing both cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's. The study reports managing cholesterol and triglyceride levels could help to...

Dickinsonia lived about 560 million years ago and may have been the first animal - but it seems to have inflated its body in a way no animals do today

For big companies, success is a blessing and a curse. You don't get big without doing something (or many things) very right. It might start with an invention or service the world didn't know it needed. Your product takes...

Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people.

For eons, the only way to access the three-pound mushy bio-computer between our ears was to physically crack the skull, or insert a sharp object up the nose. Lucky for us, these examples of medical barbarism have been re...

A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of t...

In physics, it is well-known that electrons behave very differently in three dimensions, two dimensions or one dimension. These behaviours give rise to different possibilities for technological applications and electroni...

Next to Pluto's heart-shaped plains are strange rolling hills unlike anything we've seen on Earth, and they may be left over from receding ancient glaciers

On July 20, 1969, just before 11 p.m. Eastern time, Neil Armstrong planted the first human footprints on another world. It was a defining moment in a journey that had transfixed the planet. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin carrying...

A new study reports obesity can significantly increase the risk of depression, even in the absence of other health problems.

As wildfires continue to burn in California, new satellite photos show the sheer scale of the deadly Camp Fire that has devastated the state's northern town of Paradise.

For the first time, physicists present a unified theory explaining two characteristic features of frustrated magnets and why they're often seen together.

How do these three diets stack up against each other when it comes to heart health?