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Understanding how chemical reactions happen on tiny crystals in liquid solutions is central to a variety of fields, including materials synthesis and heterogeneous catalysis, but obtaining such an understanding requires ...

Teenagers who regularly eat breakfast with their parents have a more positive body image than those who skip the meal or do not eat with their family.

Combining carboplatin, a common chemotherapy drug, with everolimus, a drug that blocks mTOR, is effective at inducing apoptosis and slowing tumor growth in patients with pediatric low-grade glioma brain cancer.

Physicists at the University of Maryland have developed a powerful new method to detect radioactive material. By using an infrared laser beam to induce a phenomenon known as an electron avalanche breakdown near the mater...

Study finds some evidence of a positive link between early life anxiety and later alcohol use disorder. However, there was no consistent link between anxiety in childhood and drinking frequency or binge drinking.

Differences in serotonergic neuron morphology, along with altered gene expression have been identified in patients with MDD. The findings shed light on why some patients do not respond to SSRI antidepressants.

An asymmetry between matter and antimatter has been observed in the charm quark.

Did you know that music and diagnostic imaging have something in common? Sounds have a lower or higher pitch depending on the size of the object that creates them. Tubas and double basses are big and produce deep low-pit...

Coverage of high-profile deaths such as Love Island contestant Mike Thalassitis often falls short - we can and must do better, says psychologist Rory O'Connor

For the past two decades, scientists have constructed a variety of experiments, including cryogenic detectors and tanks of liquid xenon, around the world in hopes of spotting the scantest signs of elusive dark matter par...

The chemical reactions that give rise to life need enough liquid water and not too much ultraviolet light, which seems to be a rare combination in the galaxy

A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica.

Should you go to graduate school? If so, why? If not, what are your alternatives? Millions of young adults across the globe--and their parents and mentors--find themselves asking these questions every year. Earlier this ...

Solar energy is one of the most promising resources to help reduce fossil fuel consumption and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to power a sustainable future. Devices presently in use to convert solar energy into therma...

One of the fastest-moving pulsars ever has been discovered careening away from a supernova so quickly it will eventually escape the Milky Way.

Don't sleep on carbon monoxide, alien hunters.

The discovery of a fossil showing an ancient sea creature with 18 tentacles surrounding its mouth has helped to solve a modern-day mystery about the origins of a gelatinous carnivore called a comb jelly, a new study find...

Her work has led to some of the most important advances in math in the last 40 years.

The key physical property of multiferroic materials is the existence of a coupling between magnetism and polarization. The origin and manifestations of magnetoelectricity can be very different in the available multiferro...

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has just released evidence for the simultaneous production of three W or Z bosons in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The W and Z bosons are the mediator particles...

A rare phenomenon seen in just a handful of materials at forbidding temperatures has been detected within “warm” graphite—a finding that could aid future microelectronics --

Big mamma shark and her baby sharks are, sadly, dead, but scientists are going to try to make the most of the situation.