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Coronavirus cases are rising sharply in South America, made worse by inequality, economic instability and the actions of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro

Recently, researchers at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new kind of telescope structure, a Theon-Kepler bifocal telescope, to realize radial-shearing in...

(Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)) Skoltech scientists and their industry colleagues have found a way to use machine learning to accurately predict rock thermal conductivity, a crucial parameter fo...

Social preference in isolated zebrafish is caused by stress and anxiety, not observed anti-social patterns.

Researchers have identified how specific genetic mutations cause ALS. The pathway, they believe, may also be responsible for the development of frontotemporal dementia.

New coronavirus model finds case spread is concave, meaning the impact of one more infected person diminishes as more people become infected.

A carving of a bird less than 2 centimetres long was probably shaped 13,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest known sculptures discovered in China

The spleens of live mice can be transformed into liver-like organs as a treatment for severe liver damage that could one day replace transplants in humans

Study finds the world is a much more similar and unified place than we thought.

High-potency marijuana boosts the blood level of THC more than 50% more than smoking lower-potency cannabis, but it doesn't necessarily make you higher or impair cognition more, a new study reports.

Most psychiatric drugs were developed before brain scans existed. Now neuroscientist Mitul Mehta is using scans of people under the influence of drugs or hypnosis to help develop better treatments

A near-mythical titanosaur could have been twice as heavy as Patagotitan, the dinosaur previously thought to be the largest animal ever to walk the Earth

Black scientists have contributed to society and made groundbreaking discoveries throughout history and continue to do so to this day. Here's a look at just a few of the amazing Black scientists from the past and present...

Electrons are very much at the mercy of magnetic fields, which scientists can manipulate to control the electrons and their angular momentum--i.e. their "spin."

A new study casts doubt on common theories about speech control. Researchers discovered it's not just the right hemisphere that analyzes how we speak, the left hemisphere also plays a significant role.

Topological metamaterials are applied as a novel platform to explore and study extraordinary effects. Instead of using natural materials, researchers artificially arrange the constituents of a topological metamaterial in...

The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species--from algae to elephants--all evolved from a simple, single-celled common ancestor around 3.5 billion years ago. But does tha...

The charge of a single electron, e, is defined as the basic unit of electric charge. Because electrons--the subatomic particles that carry electricity--are elementary particles and cannot be split, fractions of electroni...

An Oregon State University environmental engineering professor has solved a decades-old mystery regarding the behavior of fluids, a field of study with widespread medical, industrial and environmental applications.

A pair of researchers at Surrey University has attempted to show what a bicycle moving at near the speed of light might look like to a human observer. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Soci...

A person's eggs release chemicals after sex that preferentially attract sperm from certain people, which might help explain why some people have fertility problems

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