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The mystery behind what's causing the E. coli outbreak that's sickened more than 100 Americans in the past month may finally be solved.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have built a new photonic switch that can control the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently than ever. This optical "traffic cop...

People are more original than they think--this is suggested by a literary text analysis method of stylometry proposed by scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences. The author's individua...

In the food deserts of the deep ocean, it doesn't take long for scavengers to find a bonanza when it lands.

While listening to audiobooks with a captivating narrative, the inferior parietal lobe and visual cortex elicit individual meaning and flow of mental imagery.

38 new genes have been implicated in hearing loss. One of the genes, SPNS2, has been linked to childhood deafness.

Convolutional neural network model significantly outperforms previous methods and is as accurate as humans in segmenting active and overlapping neurons.

Those who have a greater sense of 'oneness' experience overall higher levels of satisfaction with life, regardless of spiritual background or belief.

Researchers predict the development of a brain/cloud interface that connects neurons to cloud computing networks in real time.

A localization phenomenon boosts the accuracy of solving quantum many-body problems with quantum computers. These problems are otherwise challenging for conventional computers. This brings such digital quantum simulation...

In utero exposure to anesthesia appears to disrupt the migration of neurons to developing brain areas critical to language and cognition in rats.

The US Department of Defense is ending its contract with cold war-era advisory group JASON. That's OK - today's scientists need to air concerns in public, says Audra J. Wolfe

The first black hole ever directly imaged now has been nicknamed Pōwehi, but making the name official will take some time

During the past 50 years, the frequency of recorded natural disasters has surged nearly five-fold. In this blog, I'll be exploring how converging exponential technologies (AI, robotics, drones, sensors, networks) are tra...

Online clicks are worth big money. Now hackers are using a cunning set of click-tricks to make money from people visiting websites without them realising

An impact in the inner asteroid belt 22 million years ago was responsible for a meteorite shower over Turkey in 2015

Although several past studies have investigated the formation of crystals from identical particles, the conditions under which non-uniform particles crystallize and the crystals resulting from this process are still poor...

The realization that giant sea spiders have Swiss cheese-like holes in their exoskeletons has shed light on a decades-old mystery about how underwater creatures living in the polar oceans and deep abysses got so spookily...

The Falcon Heavy rocket's maiden flight was last February, but now it has launched a satellite for a paying customer for the first time, which is a big step for SpaceX

Plastics are leaving no corner of the planet untouched. Tiny pieces, called microplastics, have now been found in a mountain glacier for the first time

A new type of pocket-sized antenna, developed at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, could enable mobile communication in situations where conventional radios don't work, such as under water,...

Social anxiety disorder isn't just being shy.