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An artificial intelligence built by Facebook has learned to solve university-level calculus problems in seconds

Researchers of the UT found a new way to protect data from attacks with quantum computers. As they published today in New Journal of Physics. With quantum computers on the rise, we can no longer exclude the possibility t...

Tiny pores in heart cells generate electrical signals to initiate each heart beat. Structural studies of these channels provide details on their functions, and also on their malfunction due to different inherited mutatio...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are exceptional in many respects. Working in collaboration with the Imperial College London, for example, they have conducted research on a ...

(Cell Press) Researchers offer an updated vision of the steps that 143 countries around the world can take to attain 100% clean, renewable energy by the year 2050. The new roadmaps, publishing Dec. 20 in the journal One ...

HU-308, a cannabis substitute, can reduce L-dopa induced dyskinesia in Parkinson's patients.

Nucleus papilion neurons play an important role in eye movement during REM sleep.

Since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built its first superconducting devices for counting photons (the smallest units of light) in the 1990s, these once-rare detectors have become popular resea...

Gamma-ray bursts are even worse than we thought.

Those who purchase luxury goods often feel inauthentic and less confident when sporting their buys. Rather than affirming a buyers' sense of status, luxury purchases often foster an impostor syndrome.

The posterior inferotemporal cortex plays a critical role in attention. Researchers say the discovery may require rethinking old concepts of attentional control.

Obesity during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ among boys, but not girls, at age 7. The findings suggest maternal obesity has long=term implications for early cognitive development.

Study reveals substantial variations in how different languages conceptualize emotions. The findings challenge assumptions about the universal nature of emotional semantics.

Obese children tend to have a thinner prefrontal cortex and cerebral cortex. The findings could explain why there is a correlation between obesity in children and decreased executive function.

Always on the lookout for better ways to measure all kinds of things, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published a detailed study suggesting an "elegant" improved definition f...

Light propagation is usually reciprocal, meaning that the trajectory of light travelling in one direction is identical to that of light travelling in the opposite direction. Breaking reciprocity can make light propagate ...

Paul Davies' newest book, The Demon in the Machine, takes aim at one of the great outstanding scientific enigmas--what is life, how and why does it emerge and what distinguishes the living from the non-living? The book, ...

At a gathering of quantum computing experts from around the world, nobody seemed quite sure what quantum computers will be good for - if anything at all

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launched on 20 December, but problems with one of its clocks meant that it will not be able to complete its mission to the ISS

The robots are coming! The robots are coming! On our sidewalks, in our skies, in our every store... Over the next decade, robots will enter the mainstream of retail. As countless robots work behind the scenes to stock sh...

University of Queensland researchers have combined quantum liquids and silicon-chip technology to study turbulence for the first time, opening the door to new navigation technologies and improved understanding of the tur...

For most people, getting an ultrasound is a relatively easy procedure: As a technician gently presses a probe against a patient's skin, sound waves generated by the probe travel through the skin, bouncing off muscle, fat...