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Federal agents seek assistance in identifying confiscated artifacts and bones.

Researchers have created a 3D reconstruction of a marmoset brain that could help offer insights into human neural connectivity.

The insides of neutron stars—the densest form of matter in the universe—have long been a mystery, but it is one that scientists are starting to crack --

(Biophysical Society) Researchers at the University of Illinois show that the membranes of cells surrounding arteries get stiffer and thicker in response to a high fat diet, due to both LDLs and oxidized LDLs.

At the end of 2018, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) completed its second multi-year run ("Run 2") that saw the machine reach a proton-proton collision energy of 13 TeV, the highest ever reached by a particle accelerator....

Today, over 77 percent of Americans own a smartphone with access to the world's information and near-limitless learning resources. Yet nearly 36 million adults in the US are constrained by low literacy skills, excluding ...

According to researchers, older people who participate in short burst of physical activity, at any intensity, experience a boost in brain health.

A new mouse study reveals a brain circuit that may enable high speed back and forth conversation. The findings could help shed new light on the causes of speech disorders.

Researchers have successfully rejuvenated stem cells in the brains of aging mice. The study reports the rejuvenated stem cells help improve regeneration of injured or diseased brain areas.

Asteroids hitting the surface of Mars billions of years ago would have produced enough energy to vaporise ice, creating clouds of hot rain that took decades to clear

Last year China banned imports of foreign waste, temporarily disrupting US recycling efforts. In the meantime, some US communities are burning their waste

Alcohol consumption may be more harmful than thought, particularly for young and middle-age adults, a new study suggests.

SpaceX's famous "Starman" dummy onboard the inaugural Falcon Heavy launch is about to have some competition -- from a new dummy, named Ripley, strapped into the company's first Crew Dragon capsule.

Astronomers need ever more sensitive detectors to broaden their understanding of the universe. Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKID) could make far-infrared telescopes 1 million times more sensitive. Scientists f...

Amorphous ferromagnetic microwires are thin, glass-coated wires used to manufacture magnetic safety tags and in medicine. A team of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and MISIS controlled their prope...

SpaceX plans an uncrewed test flight of the Dragon spacecraft on 2 March, which will carry cargo and an astronaut dummy to the International Space Station

A team of researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and Cornell University has found that a polka-dot pattern emerges in superfluid helium-3 when it is placed in a thin cavity and subjected to a magnetic field...

In many places, the sun reaches its highest point in the sky well after 12 o’clock --

For the first time, scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have succeeded in losslessly guiding positrons, the antiparticles of electrons, into a ma...

This weekend, a brilliant display of objects will shine in the night sky when the crescent moon moves into conjunction with Saturn and Venus.

A miniature prison for photons--that is the nanocavity discovered by scientists of the University of Twente. It is an extremely small cavity surrounded by an optical crystal, a structure of pores etched in two perpendicu...

You've probably seen this effect--perhaps you are a victim of it. You feel alienated from mainstream culture and want to make a statement that you are not part of it. You think about wearing different clothes, experiment...