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How many times have you heard the following idea? Deep learning, the machine learning technique that has taken the AI world by storm, is loosely inspired by the human brain. I myself have repeated the statement so many t...

What's the secret to being a badass great white shark? Millions of years of highly specialized genetic evolution.

The ancient desert village of Shivta in southern Israel made headlines when archaeologists discovered a wall painting there that is thought to show the baptism of Jesus Christ, the earliest representation of Christ known...

Solar flares shouldn't produce X-rays, but they do. Why? The one-size-fits-all approach to electron collisions misses a lucky few that lead to an intense X-ray burst. Scientists thought there were too many electron-scatt...

A trio of researchers with McMaster, Concordia and Trent Universities has solved the mystery of why pairs of grapes ignite into fireballs when cooked together in a microwave oven. In their paper published in Proceedings ...

Shaking a physical system typically heats it up, in the sense that the system continuously absorbs energy. When considering a circular shaking pattern, the amount of energy that is absorbed can potentially depend on the ...

(Virginia Tech) Liu's porous carbon fibers can enable high energy density and high electron/ion charging rates, which are typically mutually exclusive in electrochemical energy storage devices.

There have been several hints of a moon orbiting the exoplanet Kepler-1625b, but now researchers say these signals might actually point to a Jupiter-like planet

Imagine being stuck inside a maze and wanting to find your way out. How would you proceed? The answer is trial and error. This is how traditional computers with classical algorithms operate to find the solution to a comp...

A new study reveals the somatosensory cortex plays a complex role in memory and reward learning.

A new study reveals a link between food allergies and relapses in Multiple Sclerosis.

Researchers report fear extinction memories form as a result of an adenosine modification, which help to increase the activity of specific genes.

A new study reveals Hispanic Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease tend to survive significantly longer with the condition than people from other ethnoracial groups.

The Committee on Climate Change has warned that the UK failed to meet 15 out of 18 of its targets for tackling emissions between 2013 and 2017

A historic second world war German submarine off the US coast is being destroyed -- thanks to oil released from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill

Researchers have successfully created a new map of the brain's immune system in both mice and humans. The findings suggest microglia all have the same core signatures, but can act differently, depending on their function...

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will manage unprecedented volumes of data produced each night. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope--scheduled to come online in the early 2020s--will use a 3.2-gigapixel camera to phot...

In the latest wrinkle to be discovered in cubic boron arsenide, the unusual material contradicts the traditional rules that govern heat conduction, according to a new report by Boston College researchers in today's editi...

Excitons--electrically neutral quasiparticles--have extraordinary properties. They exist only in semiconducting and insulating materials and can be easily accessed in two-dimensional (2D) materials just a few atoms thick...

Fast magnetic reconnection, the rapid convergence, separation and explosive snapping together of magnetic field lines, gives rise to northern lights, solar flares and geomagnetic storms that can disrupt cell phone servic...

Have you ever taken a moment to admire the brilliant blue of a bluebird's feathers or the vibrant green of a beetle's wings and wondered why you can't buy that color in a paint can? Nature has long since perfected a kind...

Rainforest species are usually too difficult for people to catch - but for 45,000 years, humans in Sri Lanka survived by hunting squirrels and monkeys