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He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O'Neill of University College London was there

Researchers say a new discovery about the pathways associated with consciousness contradicts conventional belief. The study reports the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain's pathway involved in wakefulness and c...

A research team from ITMO University and the University of Rochester (U.S.) conducted a study on the formation of terahertz radiation in liquids. Previously, the generation of such radiation in a liquid medium was consid...

If you made a wish on every star in the universe, you'd need to make about a trillion trillion wishes--that's a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Of course, you can't see all of those stars from your bedroom window. You can't even...

USC scientists have demonstrated a theoretical method to enhance the performance of quantum computers, an important step to scale a technology with potential to solve some of society's biggest challenges.

By essentially turning down the pitch of sound waves, University of Michigan engineering researchers have devised a way to unlock greater amounts of data from acoustic fields than ever before.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have made a material that can transition from an electricity-transmitting metal to a nonconducting insulating material without changing its atomic structure.

We thought the first Homo species evolved in East Africa 2.8 million years ago, but stone tools from Algeria suggest our origins may have spanned the continent

One species of spider seems to have worked out how to recycle unused eggs into a milk that contains four times the protein of cow's milk

The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago

A new study reveals how the brain processes sound and how quickly neurons transition from processing the sound of speech to the language based words.

Researchers report repeated blows to the head as a result of playing youth football has implications for brain development. The study revealed players had alterations to the nerve fibers in the corpus callosum.

Stimulating the lateral orbitofrontal cortex improves mood in those suffering from depression, a new study reveals.

A new study combines hundreds of brain scans of patients with OCD and pinpoints problems with error processing in the brain that leads to repetitive behaviors.

Once again, a decades-old theory of gravity has survived a modern scientific onslaught. Einstein wins again.

A 33-million-year-old-fossil suggests some whales evolved baleens for filter feeding only after losing their teeth, so they must have sucked food from the water

TRUE DISORDER or mythical modern ailment? Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most controversial topics in psychiatry. Not for the first time, the internet is brimming with conflicting informati...

THE SECOND International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong this week, was supposed to be a forum in which the idea of editing the genomes of human embryos could be discussed calmly and soberly. Fat chance...

THIS IS THE view from the instrument deployment camera of InSight, America's latest probe to Mars, which landed safely on November 26th. InSight joins one, or possibly two, other missions now operating on the Martian sur...

How they used to do it IN THE EARLY 16th century a knight called Gottfried von Berlichingen spent decades marauding and feuding on behalf of the Holy Roman Empire. He conducted most of his career singlehandedly--the othe...

There was a seismic hum that nobody could hear, and scientists still aren't sure what caused it.

It's not like moon-walking astronauts don't already have plenty of hazards to deal with. There's less gravity, extreme temperatures, radiation--and the whole place is aggressively dusty. If that weren't enough, it also t...