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There are more than 1.1 million people in the US living with HIV, and 1 in 7 of them don't even know they have it. Young people are the most likely to be unaware of their infections. Globally, there were approximately 36...

As on Earth, so in space. A four-satellite mission that is studying magnetic reconnection--the breaking apart and explosive reconnection of the magnetic field lines in plasma that occurs throughout the universe--has foun...

Like so many targets of scientific inquiry, the class of material referred to as the kagome magnet has proven to be a source of both frustration and amazement. Further revealing the quantum properties of the kagome magne...

Machine learning algorithms were able to distinguish, with 73% accuracy, neurobiological differences between those with dissociative identity disorder and those without the condition.

Researchers report our brain is on high alert while listening to voices, finding we respond much faster to vocal aggression than normal or happy voices. The reason, researchers say, could be that our attention is more fo...

Australian scientists have investigated new directions to scale up qubits--utilising the spin-orbit coupling of atom qubits--adding a new suite of tools to the armory.

Researchers report a new drug can help to reduce symptoms of cannabis withdrawal for those with cannabis use disorder.

A new study confirms the link between vitamin D deficiency in newborns and an increased risk of schizophrenia later in life. Researchers report those born with a vitamin D deficiency had a 44% increased risk of being dia...

A summertime sparkle seemed to hint that researchers had found dark matter, but it looks like those scientists were wrong.

The Spitzer Space Telescope failed to spot 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object we've ever seen, but we were still able to learn something about this strange space rock

Holography is a powerful tool that can reconstruct wavefronts of light and combine the fundamental wave properties of amplitude, phase, polarization, wave vector and frequency. Smart multiplexing techniques (multiple sig...

The production of chlorofluorocarbons, which damage the ozone layer, has been banned as far as possible. However, other substances can also tear holes in the ozone layer in combination with ice particles, such as those f...

Reading these words, your eyes let you see each letter and the spaces between them. But if you need reading glasses, the letters may be fuzzy or incomprehensible. Scientists face a similar challenge. Gathering the right ...

The Chang'e 4 mission, launching on 7 December, will place both a lander and a rover on the far side of the moon, where no spacecraft has ever landed before

Several media outlets are reporting the sacred chest holding the Ten Commandments is hiding inside the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion.

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, and the Institut FEMTO-ST at the Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Fran...

Australia has just introduced new laws forcing companies to give them access to people's encrypted messages. Cybersecurity researchers say this will likely backfire

A team of international researchers led by engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have invented a new magnetic device to manipulate digital information 20 times more efficiently and with 10 times more ...

High-temperature superconductors have the potential to transform everything from electricity transmission and power generation to transportation.

A new collaborative study led by a research team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Washington could provide engineers new des...

He Jiankui used gene editing in an attempt to make HIV-resistant babies, but most geneticists think the best use of embryo editing would be to prevent genetic disorders

Warming oceans lead to some strange brain changes in sharks.