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In September 2018, a lab-based study published in Nature Biotechnology confirmed what many had long believed possible. The experiment involved cages of a few hundred mosquitoes, free to fly around and reproduce--but with...

Enceladus and Europa both have liquid oceans under their shells of ice, and they may be full of tidal waves bouncing energy between their cores and surfaces

Past studies suggested there was less dark matter earlier on in the universe's history.

Researchers investigate both the cognitive and neurobiological basis of why so people have religious beliefs.

Researchers report age related hearing loss can increase the risk of older adults experiencing symptoms of depression. The study reports those with mild hearing loss were twice as likely to be depressed, and those with s...

According to a new study, the immune system may play a critical role in damage associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and ALS. The study reports altering Cdk5 results in the death of dopa...

Researchers report allowing smokers to dictate their nicotine intake while trying to quit makes them more likely to succeed. Results suggest most smokers who use nicotine replacement medications can tolerate doses that a...

The New Horizons spacecraft just flew past a distant rock called MU69 or Ultima Thule that looks like a snowman - and it may have exotic ices on its surface

A new study reveals a group of genes that induces differences in brain development of males and females, and triggers the initiation of sexual maturation.

UK surrogates are speaking out against a move to pay women a fee for carrying someone else's child, says Natalie Smith

Never has there been a more important time for politicians to move beyond paying lip service to the fight against global warming, says Owen Gaffney

Copyright protections were originally designed to incentivise creators and allow them to profit from their work, but what happens when the artist is a machine?

December is behind us, but there's still a lot icy-cold winter left in our part of the world. That means we're surrounded by snowmen, sleds, and cute little images of penguins and polar bears. This season I'm seeing thos...

Only moments before New Horizons flew by the most distant solar system object ever visited, astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May released his new single based on the mission.

Ultima Thule, the weird Kuiper Belt object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited in a historic flyby on Jan. 1, 2019, looks like a cosmic bowling pin, scientists say.

When it comes to particle accelerators, magnets are one key to success. Powerful magnetic fields keep particle beams "on track" as they're ramped up to higher energy, crashed into collisions for physics experiments, or d...

A new species of Jurassic pterosaur had fearsome teeth.

Quantum computing and quantum information processing technology have attracted attention in recently emerging fields. Among many important and fundamental issues in science, solving the Schroedinger equation (SE) of atom...

Bravo for having given up eating meat! But in the ninth of our 12 Days of Culture, might we suggest giving up cheese and going back to chicken - for ethical reasons?

The visual system of Xenos peckii, an endoparasite of paper wasps, demonstrates distinct benefits for high sensitivity and high resolution, differing from the compound eyes of most insects. Inspired by their unique featu...

Why is water densest at around 4 degrees Celsius? Why does ice float? Why does heavy water have a different melting point compared to normal water? Why do snowflakes have a six-fold symmetry? A collaborative study of res...

The howler monkeys of Costa Rica normally have black coats, but over the last 20 years some have turned yellow - a change too fast to be explained by evolution