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If greenhouse gas emissions keep rising, a cloud feedback effect could lead to more than 14°C warming above the pre-industrial level

How can you efficiently change someone's mind? The art of debate has always seemed like black magic to me. You're not necessarily arguing for something you believe in--rather, you're carefully dissecting the logic of you...

Researchers have been trying to cool macroscopic mechanical oscillators down to their ground state for several decades. Nonetheless, past studies have merely attained the cooling of a few selected vibrational modes of su...

(University of Pittsburgh) Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals that are useful in a variety of industries because of their durability, but do not naturally break down in the environmen...

A new study reports human fat cells have their own internal clocks and circadian rhythms which affect metabolic functions.

By optimizing neurons with CRISPR gene editing technology, researchers will have new ways to study genetic influences on brain health and disease, a new study reports.

Some of the most advanced communication systems now under development rely on the properties of quantum science to store and transport information. However, researchers designing quantum communication systems that rely o...

Plant diseases are a significant threat to our food security. Rain provides fresh water to our crops, but splashing drops may also contribute to the spread of plant disease. Raindrop impact is known to be a mechanism for...

Spending 20 minutes in an urban park helps to increase emotional well being, regardless of whether or not a person is participating in exercise, a new study reports.

Liquid droplets assume complex shapes and behave in different ways, each with a distinct resonance--like a drum head or a violin string--depending on the intricate interrelationship of the liquid, the solid it lands on a...

Unraveling the mystery of superconductivity at high temperatures, specifically in copper oxide materials, remains one of the most puzzling challenges in modern solid-state physics. But an international research team of e...

Researchers report estrogen may play a significant role in synaptic plasticity and memory formation. The study reports mice whose neurons did not produce estrogen have impairments in spatial reference memories, recogniti...

A new neuroimaging study reveals real time eye contact is a basis for effective social communication. The study found eye contact between two people simultaneously activated the same areas of each person's brain.

A new study identifies 956 genetic variants that contribute to an increased risk of insomnia. Researchers also identified the brain areas, biological processes and cell types that mediate the genetic risk of insomnia.

Even at doses that help improve monkeys' attention, researchers observe no differences of neural activity in the prefrontal cortex after administering Ritalin.

The potential computing revolution that quantum computers have long promised is based on their weird property called superposition. Namely, qubits can take both logical states 0 and 1 simultaneously, on top of any value ...

The Soviet Union launched the Cosmos 482 Venus probe on March 31, 1972. But the failed Venus craft is crashing back to Earth soon.

If you read a book painting the very worst-case scenarios about what global warming means for human life you could easily panic. Here's why you shouldn't

Egyptian officials at the airport discovered smuggled mummy parts.

Future technologies based on the principles of quantum mechanics could revolutionize information technology. But to realize the devices of tomorrow, today's physicists must develop precise and reliable platforms to trap ...

Combining a first laser pulse to heat up and "drill" through a plasma, and another to accelerate electrons to incredibly high energies in just tens of centimeters, scientists have nearly doubled the previous record for l...

Yue Yuan, a second-year Ph.D. student at NC State University's Wilson College of Textiles, is working to create textiles that filter carbon dioxide (CO2) by using the latest scientific techniques in synthesis and imaging...