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Albert Einstein was famous for many things, but his greatest brainchild is the theory of relativity. It forever changed our understanding of space and time.

For centuries, humans have been expanding their understanding of the world through more and more precise measurement of light and matter. Today, quantum sensors achieve extremely accurate results. An example of this is t...

(Vienna University of Technology) One of the fundamental physical constants, the 'weak axial vector coupling constant' (gA), has now been measured with very high precision for the first time. It is needed to explain nucl...

Military veterans exposed to combat were more likely to exhibit signs of depression and anxiety in later life than veterans who had not seen combat, a new study shows.

Researchers say that women who are 41 weeks pregnant should not be alarmed, as the increased risk is low -- equivalent to one additional stillbirth for every 1,449 pregnancies, compared to delivering at 40 weeks.

Adolescent depression increases with exposure to pesticides, a study in the Ecuadorian Andes shows.

Researchers have developed a unique method for studying proteins which could open new doors for medicinal research. Through capturing proteins in a nano-capsule made of glass, the researchers have been able to create a u...

Domestic violence survivors commonly suffer repeated blows to the head and strangulation, trauma that has lasting effects that should be widely recognized by advocates, health care providers, law enforcement and others w...

A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks. Researchers identified the weakness and notified the software developers, who issued a pat...

There are two sound velocities in a Bose-Einstein condensate. In addition to the normal sound propagation there is second sound, which is a quantum phenomenon. Scientists in Ludwig Mathey's group from the University of H...

Chemists are reporting a new finding on how sickle cells are formed, which may lead not only to stopping their formation, but to new avenues for making uniformly-sized nanoparticles for industry.

In 2018, a Florida man found a piece of tooth embedded in his foot from a shark bite off Flagler Beach 24 years earlier. A DNA test of the tooth revealed the kind of shark that had nabbed his foot nearly a quarter centur...

Scientists have uncovered a metabolic pathway that only exists in parasitic worms. This will allow development of drugs that target parasites only without harming the human host.

Clear information from trusted organizations has greater reach on social media than personal accounts.

Why is eating a high fat diet a recipe for obesity? According to a new study, the answer involves the activity of a specific type of immune cell that lives in the small intestine. Experiments showed that without group-2 ...

Carefully designed, integrated multi-'omic' studies could accelerate the use of precision medicine for asthma patients, according to researchers.

Researchers have for the first time eliminated replication-competent HIV-1 DNA -- the virus responsible for AIDS -- from the genomes of living animals. The study marks a critical step toward the development of a possible...

Scientists have uncovered details of a key cellular mechanism crucial for proper brain development. It involves a gene that, when mutated, had previously been linked to the development of autism.

Antidepressants reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes and depression, according to a new study.

Antibiotics can leave the lung vulnerable to flu viruses, leading to significantly worse infections and symptoms, finds a new study. The research discovered that signals from gut bacteria help to maintain a first line of...

Teenagers with large amounts of grey matter in the brain at age 14 are more likely to increase their alcohol use over the next five years, according to a whole brain imaging study.

A new study in marmoset monkeys suggests that individual variation in genes alters our ability to regulate emotions, providing new insights that could help in the development of personaliszd therapies to tackle anxiety a...