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The Big Bang is commonly thought of as the start of it all: About 13.8 billion years ago, the observable universe went boom and expanded into being. But what were things like before the Big Bang?

A flight attendant in Israel is in a coma after getting the measles, according to news reports.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation applied to the parietal lobe improves the function of brain areas important for memory which are disrupted by aging. The study reports TMS helps improve memory in older adults experienci...

Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation reduces inflammation and improves symptoms for those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. The simulation technique helps inhibit the production of cytokines and reduces inflammatory r...

Origami-based structures have been used to create deployable solar arrays for space, adaptable acoustic systems for symphony halls and even crash protection systems for flying drones.

Two or more hours of screen time is associated with inattention problems in preschool-aged children.

Bacteriophage viruses target microbes and not human cells - but paradoxically, they make it harder to treat bacterial infections in people with cystic fibrosis

When a violent world event occurs, you may want to find out as much about it as possible. But exposure to media coverage may cause long-term anxiety and stress

Stone Age farmers living in Turkey became more reliant on domestic sheep and goats over a 1000-year period, according to a study of the animals' preserved urine

Vitamin D causes dendritic cells to produce more CD31, hindering the activation of T cells. The study sheds light on how vitamin D deficiency regulates the immune system and can lead to autoimmune diseases, like multiple...

Cannabidiol may be able to bypass the blood-brain barrier to effectively deliver medications directly to the brain.

The first atoms fused into molecules about 400,000 years after the big bang, and now we've seen signs of those earliest types of molecule in a distant nebula

Pig brains have been partly revived after their bodies were killed. But what does this mean and how could it be used to help people in emergency situations?

Yale researchers successfully restored cellular activity and circulation to a pig's brain, four hours after its death. The research challenges the assumption about both timing and the irreversible nature of the cessation...

A certain phenomenon has confounded scientists for almost two centuries: lone waves, strangely tall and fast, moving independently of the ebb and flow around them.

Gender identity, rather than sex, may cause the epigenome of the brain to differ in males and females.

US police have used a gun that fires a cord around a suspect, binding their limbs and preventing them from moving, for the first time

AS TREASURE MAPS go, it will be hard to beat. Geologists from Harvard University, Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University are drawing up a map to show where mining companies should focus their search ...

AFTER HURRICANE BETSY pummelled New Orleans in 1965, causing damage so severe that "Betsy" was retired from the rotating list of names given to Atlantic hurricanes, the Governor of Louisiana, John McKeithen, pledged that...

IN THE PAST 150 years, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 410 ppm. For farmers this is mixed news. Any change in familiar weather patterns caused by the at...

MUCK DIVING sounds the very antithesis of coral-reef diving. Reef divers swim through a world of colourful coral heads populated by strikingly patterned fish, scuttling arthropods and awesome molluscs. Muck divers explor...

AN OBVIOUS RESPONSE to deforestation is to plant more trees. But this is no easy task. Sowing the right mix of seeds and ensuring that saplings survive long enough to establish themselves is complicated, time-consuming a...