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Oxytocin and cortisol levels are higher in women with dissociative PTSD.

Study finds a 'peculiar association' between amyloid precursor protein and cholesterol in the cell membrane of synapses. Amyloid precursor protein may contribute to cholesterol deficiency, triggering neurodegeneration in...

Just four months into 2019, the UK has been hit by more large wildfires than in the whole of 2018. Fires are thought to be made more likely by climate change

Is the moon all it's cracked up to be?

Greenland's ice sheet has undergone a stunning reversal in the last 46 years, as a meticulous new study documents.

A newly developed drug can help combat the effects of postnatal depression.

Researchers at Utah State University's Splash Lab discovered a new mode of water surface skipping termed "water walking".

While studying the chemical reactions that occur in the flow of gases around a vehicle moving at hypersonic speeds, researchers at the University of Illinois used a less-is-more method to gain greater understanding of th...

Measuring seismic activity on Mars could help us figure out how much water the planet has, and now NASA's InSight lander has felt marsquakes for the first time

People with incurable melanomas and brain or breast cancers are to receive injections of genetically modified viruses that may shrink their tumours

Contrary to popular belief, playing video games does not have an overall negative impact on the social development of boys. However, girls who spend more time playing video games at age 10 have weaker social skills than ...

Neurofilament light protein in plasma may be a noninvasive biomarker for neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Study reports children born to couples who have been in relationships for three years or less may have an increased risk of schizophrenia.

Obesity is associated with alterations in brain structure, including lower gray matter volume and smaller globus pallidus volume.

In uveitis, microglia facilitates the entry of inflammatory immune cells into the retina, enabling the host immune responses to attack cells not normally recognized by the immune system.

A space rock called Bennu is getting its close-up: NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to explore the asteroid has entered a new phase of detailed survey work.

Researchers provide evidence schizophrenia may be overdiangosed in patients experiencing anxiety and other mood disorders.

To a non-physicist, an "atomic beam collimator" may sound like a phaser firing mystical particles. That might not be the worst metaphor to introduce a technology that researchers have now miniaturized, making it more lik...

Holograms are a staple in science fiction, but creating ones detailed enough to have serious applications in the real world has proved difficult. While scientists have been slowly pushing the field of holographic project...

A new study suggests that high levels of body fat may affect the brain's structure.

Can a theory that isn't completely testable still be useful to physics? What determines if an idea is legitimately scientific or not? This question has been debated by philosophers and historians of science, working scie...

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