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A team of researchers working at the University of Twente has solved the mystery of why a drop of oil bounces repeatedly when dropped in a water/ethanol gradient but eventually falls to the bottom of a jar. In their pape...

The speed and scale of Arctic melting is shocking even hardened researchers - the need to act now has never been clearer, says our chief reporter Adam Vaughan

Loot boxes, a common reward in modern video games, may drive gambling like behaviors in adult gamers, researchers report.

Self-propagating amyloid and tau act as prions in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Higher levels of the prions in human brain samples were strongly correlated with early onset of Alzheimer's and death at a younger a...

Medically induced loss of consciousness disrupts neuron population activity patterns by generating fewer discriminable network microstates, and fewer neuronal ensembles. Findings suggest local neuronal ensemble dynamics ...

A study of more than 50,000 patients with bipolar disorder in 14 countries helped researchers identify 20 new genetic risk factors for bipolar disorder. Eight of the genes also had an association with an increased risk f...

On its surface, the work is deceptively simple: Shoot a high-power laser beam onto a piece of metal for a fraction of a second and see what happens. But researchers say the physics of laser welding is surprisingly comple...

Changes in heart rate help the brain predict when a musician is about to make an error, researchers discover.

Senolytic drugs administered to mice reduced senescent cells around amyloid plaques by more than 90% and decreased neuroinflammation by 50%. Mice treated with the drug combination also showed improvements in spatial memo...

Samples of space dust from the Hayabusa mission to the asteroid Itokawa are far less dry than we expected, which may prompt a rethink of how Earth got its water

Two studies suggest that suppressing or boosting the hormone vasopressin may help communication skills and social interactions in autistic children and men

By eating plants and then defecating in the water, hippos act as living silicon pumps - a service that may be essential for the health of their whole ecosystem

The idea of turning the immune system against cancer has a long history. This is the story of the scientific development of cell therapy

A huge number of finds in newly mined amber are rewriting what we know about the age of the dinosaurs. But getting hold of them may come at a terrible human price

Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first satellites are already up - but do we really want it?

This changes everything | As we travel in autonomous cars or on electronic scooters, a trick involving a bit of malicious code may put our computer networks at risk

We have been pumping out greenhouse gases for a very long time - and now we have evidence that humans were changing the climate over a century ago

The first Denisovan remains discovered outside Siberia suggest our extinct cousins lived at extreme altitude in Tibet long before our species made it there

The incidence and rates of suicide attempts by self-poisoning in teens and young adults have increased significantly since 2011. Girls are at higher risk of attempting suicide as a result of self-poisoning, researchers r...

Axon myelination is significantly disrupted in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers also found brain cells of men and women vary significantly in how their genes respond to the neurodegenerative disease.

Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Research and collaborators have used the center's heavy ion accelerator, the RI Beam Factory, to demonstrate that nickel-78, a neutron-rich "doubly magic" is...

Results from a phase 3 study reveal Cannabidiol (CBD) cuts seizures by almost 50% in children with Dravet syndrome.