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Can you make every number using three cubed numbers? It is a surprisingly difficult question and now we know the answer for 33

Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique that could pave the way for the next generation of optical tweezers.

There are high hopes that quantum computing's tremendous processing power will someday unleash exponential advances in artificial intelligence. AI systems thrive when the machine learning algorithms used to train them ar...

Study outlines a new ion channel based platform for cell activation which is controlled by low doses of the common anti-smoking drug, varenicline.

Schwann cells help protect nerves against blood clotting factors that cause degeneration, researchers report.

Multisensory gamma wave stimulation improves recognition and spatial memory, in addition to reducing amyloid in the auditory cortex and hippocampal CA1 areas of mice. Findings suggest such sensory stimulation boosts hipp...

Taking higher doses of vitamin D supplements can help improve memory and learning, but negatively impacts reaction time in postmenopausal women with a higher BMI. Researchers suggest the slowed reaction times may contrib...

How liquids are repelled by a surface, a property called "wettability," is important for engineers to develop aircraft that resist ice formation, for fashion designers developing outdoor gear that repels rain and dirt, a...

The development of agriculture in the Neolithic transformed world languages thanks to softer food - a finding that resolves a long-standing puzzle of the origin of speech sounds

A flu pandemic could strike without warning in the coming years, global health experts warn.

Like the white-armored and -helmeted Stormtroopers from "Star Wars," these spiders are tough to tell apart.

Insulin signaling plays a role in regulating synaptic function, glucose homeostasis, and cognition, a new study reports. Impairments in insulin signaling result in metabolic defects, in addition to memory and learning de...

New findings back up recent hippocampal research in rodents, providing evidence of a common hippocampal neural mechanism representing temporal information in episodic memory.

IT HAS BEEN over 30 years since a genuinely new type of drug for treating depression, or indeed any psychiatric illness, has come to market. Most antidepressants to date have been based on the "monoamine hypothesis", whi...

Serotonin can chemically attach to histone proteins in the cell nucleus to help regulate gene expression. The findings may provide a better understanding of an array of psychological disorders and neurodegenerative disea...

Testing self-referential bias in working memory, researchers report people automatically self prioritize. This may form the basis for egocentric bias when it comes to decision making.

Greta Thunberg, who has inspired schoolchildren around the world to go on strike in protest against climate change, has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize

The breathtaking sound and sight of waters that cascade off of steep cliffs, may be self-made productions.

Sea otters and other animals leave evidence of their tool use that can be studied using the same archaeological techniques as for ancient humans

Over the past few years, the word ‘innovation' has degenerated into something of a buzzword. In fact, according to Vijay Vaitheeswaran, US business editor at The Economist, it's one of the most abused words in the Engl...

Researchers have repurposed an algorithm originally developed for Netflix's 2009 movie preference prediction competition to create a method for acquiring classical Raman spectroscopy images of biological tissues at unpre...

Scientists around the world are testing ways to further boost the power of particle accelerators while drastically shrinking their size. At least when it comes to particle accelerators, bigger is usually better. The bigg...