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Under the direction of Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, a research group at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Engineering and Computer Science has proven that artificial intelligence (AI) can help us understand t...

An international research team headed by Evgeniy Talantsev, a senior research fellow at the Research and Educational Center of Ural Federal University, has approached the task of increasing the reliability of such comple...

Quantum computing companies are racing to squeeze ever more qubits into their devices, but is this really a solid sign of progress? IBM is proposing a more holistic measure it calls "quantum volume" (QV) that it says giv...

A new study reveals how a prion-like protein that is encoded by the TIA1 gene helps to regulate fear memories. TIA1, researchers report, may be a promising new target for the treatment of PTSD.

Reading the parts of Romeo or Juliet in a brain scanner has shown that actors have less brain activity related to their sense of self when they take on a role

Using fMRI to examine the brains of children while resting, researchers discover anhedonia is associated with hyperconnectivity between the cingulo-opercular network and ventral striatum.

Chronic exposure to manganese, as experienced by some working as industrial welders, has been linked to the onset of Parkinson's like symptoms. Researchers report manganese exposure can cause misfolded alpha-synuclein, a...

Blocking the release of dynorphin, researchers restore motivation in animals experiencing pain. The findings may help in the development of new, less addictive, pain medications.

WHY MONKEYS and apes took separate evolutionary paths has long been a mystery. One widely held theory is that environmental changes that led to more open habitats drove a wedge between these animals, leading the ancestor...

Artificial intelligence can automatically sort out data, but it struggles for some particularly complex datasets - a quantum algorithm could do better

In his Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein formulated the hypothesis according to which the speed of light is always the same, no matter what the conditions are. It may, however, be possible that--according to theoret...

Some people have to take several tablets each day to treat tuberculosis - a coil threaded with pills and inserted in the stomach offers an alternative

Earnings for scientists and engineers in the UK have grown faster than inflation this year, but Brexit uncertainty casts a shadow over future prospects, according to the 2019 New Scientist/SRG salary survey

The property that makes the subatomic realm so odd could also be the engine that gives quantum computers their superpower

Wood can now be processed into a super-material with extraordinary properties - and a wood-based, climate-saving economy is just what the planet needs

Adolescent rats exposed to alcohol had a decrease of both Arc eRNA expression and Arc gene expression in the amygdala during adulthood. Additionally, the alcohol-exposed rats displayed increased anxiety behaviors as they...

A new process for classifying neurons in the brains of mice has been outlined by researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The platform pairs microscopy with genetic labeling at single neuron resolution, allowing r...

As countries around the world grapple with rise of "anti-vax" sentiment, non-vaccinating parents in Italy face fines or their children being turned away from school

One fox learned the hard way that it's unwise to mess with a herd of dinosaurs.

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are being developed as detectors for neutrons as part of SINE2020. Luís Margato, Andrey Morozov and Alberto Blanco from LIP Coimbra in Portugal have been working on the project. Here is w...

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD), sometimes known as the Antimatter Factory, is the world's largest source of antimatter and has been operational since 2000. Here, antiprotons are slowed down and sent into the experiments...

A new image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope shows what happens when two galaxies collide -- an experience our own Milky Way will have in a few billion years.