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Would you be willing to spend 60 days in bed for $19,000?

Two rare genetic variants on the NOTCH3 and TREM2 genes have been identified in some Alzheimer's patients.

An article published in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, "Arbitrary spectral matching using multi-LED lighting systems," marks a substantial advance in lighting science and technology. In their paper, the researcher...

Even if there is water on Mars's surface it may be too cold and salty for life as we know it to survive there - so there is no risk of contaminating Mars with Earth microbes

Four kilometers below sea level between Mexico and Hawaii sit vast deposits of rare metals central to technologies like renewable energy and computing. The deposits have long enticed entrepreneurs while confounding engin...

When a particle is completely isolated from its environment, the laws of quantum physics start to play a crucial role. One important requirement to see quantum effects is to remove all thermal energy from the particle mo...

The GRAVITY Collaboration, a team of researchers at several renowned institutes including the Max Planck Institute, LESIA Paris Observatory and the European Southern Observatory, has recently tested part of the Einstein ...

The multiplication you learn at school is too slow for computers, so mathematicians are always searching for better methods. Now they have found one

All inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite semiconductors exhibit great potential for nanolasers, light emitting diodes and solar cells due to their unique properties, including low threshold, high quantum efficiency an...

Robots can regain our trust after a betrayal by lying about it, according to a video game experiment with humans and robots

According to some news outlets, March Madness is tied to an increase in men getting vasectomies. But is this real, or just hearsay?

In 1998 former tech consultant Hank Eskin launched a campaign to track dollar bills. Through the "Where's George?" initiative, dollars were stamped with messages about the currency tracking project, and people were instr...

The frogs' glowing patterns may be a form of communication.

One month after giving birth to her first child, a woman in Bangladesh shocked her doctors when she went into labor again.

Gault is spiraling into sloppy self-destruction -- and, like watching a car crash, scientists are having a hard time looking away.

The probe's death death dive helped shed light on the mystery.

Was Judas nothing more than a greedy villain?

What does the speed of light look like? CalTech researchers built the world's fastest camera to find out.

Archaeologists recently found a piece of pottery decorated with the funny face of an ancient deity who is often depicted as a bearded dwarf with a big face and bug eyes.

(Columbia University) Columbia University researchers are among the first to link disruption of a child's gastrointestinal microbiome triggered by early-life adversity -- such as parental separation -- with activity in t...

(SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics) An article published in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, 'Arbitrary spectral matching using multi-LED lighting systems,' marks a substantial advance in lighting...

(Kazan Federal University) High-resolution optical microscopy methods promise breakthroughs in materials science, biology, and medicine. Today, their possibilities basically reach those of scanning electron microscopy.