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The Indonesian government is using tiny internet-providing satellites to check if boats in the middle of the ocean are fishing legally

Superconductors are able to conduct electricity with zero resistance thanks to Cooper pairs, electron duos that team up and skate through a material unimpeded. In 2007, Brown University researchers made the surprising di...

A team of researchers at NTT Corporation has developed a way to use light-based computer hardware that allows it to to compete with silicon. In their paper published in the journal Nature Photonics, the group describes t...

During sepsis, the body sheds fragments of heparan sulfate, which crossed the blood-brain barrier and enters the hippocampus. The presence of heparan sulfate in the hippocampus may cause memory loss associated with septi...

Adora2a mediating signaling in vascular endothelial cells disrupts the blood-brain barrier in obesity. This, researchers report, could be an underlying mechanism for synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in those wi...

The flow of granular materials, such as sand and catalytic particles used in chemical reactors, and enables a wide range of natural phenomena, from mudslides to volcanos, as well as a broad array of industrial processes,...

The cognitive cost of empathy may cause people to be less empathetic to others.

During navigation tasks using a 'smell scape', the entorhinal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex elicit grid cell-like activity.

Artificial intelligence technology is able to objectively differentiate between those with PTSD and those without by analyzing speech samples, with 89.1% accuracy.

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the University of Rome, CNRS and the University of Helsinki have recently carried out a study investigating the difference between 3-D anisotropic turbulence in classical...

Springtime stargazers are in for a treat; the Lyrid meteor shower will peak in a dazzling show tonight and early tomorrow morning (April 22-23).

Pinning down the ring system's age has profound implications for the entire Saturnian system.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 350-year-old massacre in Alaska that occurred during a war that may have started over a dart game.

An endearing animation presents some unusual and marvelous creatures.

Feral cats have contributed to the extinction of 20 of Australia's native mammals, but another predator - the dingo - might stop them causing more damage

Here's one explanation for why Earth's magnetic field undergoes weird geomagnetic jerks every decade or so.

SpaceX tested the escape system on its Crew Dragon capsule. Smoke from the failure was visible for miles.

Deforestation in Peru's Madre de Dios region is escalating at an alarming rate.

(The Optical Society) The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is pleased to announce Araceli Venegas-Gomez, a Ph.D. student at University of Strathclyde, U.K., as the first recipient of the Milton and Rosalind Chang Pivoting Fellowshi...

(Tokyo Institute of Technology) A pair of researchers at Tokyo Tech describes a way of making a submicron-sized cylinder disappear without using any specialized coating. Their findings could enable invisibility of natura...

(American Physical Society) A recent study revealed that sexual harassment in physics is insidious and experienced at a significantly higher rate than is generally acknowledged. The study also found that gender harassmen...

(University of Edinburgh) Scientists have uncovered a process in cells that prevents DNA from becoming tangled, which resembles a method used to control climbers' ropes.