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Bartonella infection may contribute to progressive psychiatric symptoms associated with schizophrenia and PANS in a subset of patients.

Electronics rule our world, but electrons rule our electronics. A research team at The Ohio State University has discovered a way to simplify how electronic devices use those electrons--using a material that can serve du...

Researchers in China and at UC Davis have measured high conductivity in very thin layers of niobium arsenide, a type of material called a Weyl semimetal. The material has about three times the conductivity of copper at r...

Risk taking levels between boys are girls are far from written in stone, but are shaped by society, according to a new study

Decades of data from Norway show that girls with a twin brother are less likely to finish school or university, which may be due to testosterone exposure in the womb

Since the legalization of marijuana in Washington, the use of the substance has dropped significantly in teenagers. However, in teens who work 11 or more hours a week, cannabis use has increased.

Problems with counterfactive interpretation in those with aphasia are associated with a reduction of propositional, lexical and syntactic cognition.

Working with caregivers, researchers have identified a number of characteristics required for robots to support both dementia patients and those who provide supportive care.

Consumption of high levels of sugar-sweetened beverages is positively associated with total and cardiovascular disease mortality in women.

"Frustration" plus a pulse of laser light resulted in a stable "supercrystal" created by a team of researchers led by Penn State and Argonne National Laboratory, together with University of California, Berkeley, and two ...

A new study reveals the human brain responds to changes in the Earth's magnetic field. Future studies could provide clues into the evolution and variations of magnetoreception in humans.

Lasers play a vital role in everything from modern communications and connectivity to bio-medicine and manufacturing. Many applications, however, require lasers that can emit multiple frequencies--colors of light--simult...

Coupled brain ripples between the medial temporal lobe and temporal cortex are enhanced prior to successful memory retrieval. The findings suggest the coupling may underly memory retrieval in humans.

Superfoods, although nutritious, shouldn't be considered a silver bullet.

5-MeO-DMT, a fast-acting synthetic psychedelic, shows promise for treating depression and anxiety. 80% of test subjects reported improvements in symptoms associated with depression and anxiety after taking the drug.

Physicist, neuroscience author and Star Trek script writer Leonard Mlodinow shares the secrets to the kind of elastic thinking that has fuelled his diverse career

A dead whale found in the Philippines with 40 kilograms of plastic inside its body is the latest example of the problem of plastic pollution

A dead whale found in the Philippines with 40kg of plastic inside its body is the latest example of the problem of plastic pollution

Working out if you're eating wild cod or farmed catfish is hard as mislabelling is rampant, but there are ways to make sure you're not swindled

Two Bronze Age women -- one likely a teenage priestess -- probably didn't travel far and wide across Europe, as previous research suggested, but instead were real homebodies who likely never left what is now modern-day D...

Researchers at the University of Warwick have been inspired by the unique movement of trembling aspen leaves, to devise an energy harvesting mechanism that could power weather sensors in hostile environments and could ev...

Trial and error is one of the most fundamental learning strategies employed by animals, and we're increasingly using it to teach intelligent machines too. Boosting the flow of ideas between biologists and computer scient...