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(Forschungsverbund Berlin) Climate change causes an increase in the number of freshwaters that run dry, at least temporarily. Around 90,000 square kilometres of water surface have already vanished in the last 30 years. T...

People watching the total lunar eclipse in the early hours of Monday morning noticed a brief flash of light, which has now been confirmed as a meteorite impact

Study reports physicians should treat eSports players as athletes and provide appropriate levels of preventative care, as well as treatment for injuries associated with playing computer games.

According to a new study, negative interactions on social media may increase feelings of loneliness and social isolation in young adults.

Researchers have developed a new skin biopsy test that can detect prion infections in skin samples before symptoms of disease appear.

Researchers report the striatum and amygdala are less able to track changes in threat levels in those with severe PTSD. The findings may serve as a biomarker to evaluate who may be at greater risk of PTSD symptoms.

Researchers have discovered how the body is able to initiate repair mechanisms which can limit the extent of damage to the myelin sheath. The findings could help with the development of new therapies for multiple scleros...

Disrupting memories associated with environmental cues significantly reduces cocaine seeking behaviors in rat models of addiction, a new study reports.

A new study reports Holocaust survivors who suffer from PTSD and their adult children age less successfully and display more unhealthy behaviors than those with no PTSD or who did not experience the horrors of the Holoca...

Researches use an epigenetic approach to correct synaptic dysfunction in the brain associated with memory loss. The findings could help to restore memory function in those with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative dis...

A new computational model reveals the impaired ability to integrate size and probability of reward in those with schizophrenia may be the result of a lack of consideration of the magnitude of the reward.

With a marine scientist, the teen reveals how much golf courses are polluting nearby waters.

Children who received a vaccine for a common virus that attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas have shown lower rates of type 1 diabetes

2018 was bonkers for science. From a woman who gave birth using a transplanted uterus, to the infamous CRISPR baby scandal, to forensics adopting consumer-based genealogy test kits to track down criminals, last year was ...

Three-dimensional (3-D) printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), can transform a material layer by layer to build an object of interest. 3-D printing is not a new concept, since stereolithography printers hav...

A graduate student looks for belonging inside and outside academia. If you want to visit the Pasner family farm, you'll need a truck with four-wheel drive. You'll need to traverse 4 miles of bumpy dirt road deep into the...

He Jiankui has been dismissed by the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen after a preliminary investigation by provincial authorities

Transparent electronics are the future, according to researchers including José A. Flores-Livas and Migl-- Graužinyt-- from the research group headed by Stefan Goedecker, Professor of Computational Physics at the Unive...

An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a thought experiment designed to capture the paradoxical nature of quantum physics. A group of researchers led by Gerhard Rempe,...

An international research team led by the University of Liverpool and McMaster University has made a significant breakthrough in the search for new states of matter.

Solid and liquid waste have an unexpectedly wide range of useful applications.

Is super asymmetry a thing? And do big physicists really travel economy class?