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Autoreactive cytotoxic CD8 T cells have been detected in people with narcolepsy type one. The finding suggests levels of the T-cell reactivity, combined with specific gene expression, may spur on the development of NT1.

Bowie was right; there really is a "spider" from Mars.

A group at Politecnico di Milano has developed an electronic circuit able to solve a system of linear equations in a single operation in the timescale of a few tens of nanoseconds. The performance of this new circuit is ...

People with profound motor deficits reported an improved quality of life while using robotic body surrogates.

A deep learning model uses white matter connectomes generated from MRI images taken at birth to accurately predict an infant's cognitive development at age two.

People with chronic periodontitis have a 6% increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Effective techniques for preventing extremism call for intervening early, making sure disenfranchised groups are included in society and disrupting stereotypes by making people work together. Deradicalisation programmes ...

The activity of the temporoparietal junction becomes significantly suppressed during trust decisions when people feel threatened, a new study reports.

Giant pandas, known for their distinctive markings and playful personalities, are considered China's national treasure.

That acronym you learned to memorize the order of the planets has led you astray.

Tomorrow's cities are reshaping almost every industry imaginable, and birthing those we've never heard of. Riding an explosion of sensors, megacity AI 'brains’, high-speed networks, new materials and breakthrough green...

Energy saving is important to reduce transportation costs of vehicles as well as their impact on the environment. In this context, because skin-friction drag increases significantly in turbulent flow, it is important to ...

At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, researchers have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. The discovery brings us a step closer to future applications of quantum informatio...

The second-largest meteor to hit Earth in the past century exploded over the ocean last December, but nobody was around to see it

Meet the 'Cosmic Bat' nebula, a dusty band of baby stars swooping around Orion's hips.

A team of researchers from the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms has developed a way to study and measure gases as they transition between quantum and classical states due to changes in temperature. In their paper p...

The vaquita, a small porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California, is closer to extinction than ever before despite conservation efforts to save the species

The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.

Students around the world are striking today in a major global day of action against climate change

Scientists from the Higher School of Economics and Yandex have developed a method that accelerates the simulation of processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The research findings were published in Nuclear Instrumen...

In a warmer world, some aspects of weather forecasting will become easier, but figuring out when torrential rain and flash floods are coming will be harder

A strange lump growing out of a woman's belly button turned out to be metastatic cancer, according to a new report of her case.