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AI is being widely applied to speed up the search for new drugs and new materials that could dramatically improve critical technologies like batteries and solar panels. Most of this work is done in simulation or by trawl...

(University of Liverpool) Researchers at the University of Liverpool have uncovered the molecular architecture and organisational landscape of thylakoid membranes from a model cyanobacterium in unprecedented detail. The ...

Scientists use herd immunity to describe the point at which a population is sufficiently immune to a disease to prevent its circulation.

Findings suggest increased inflammation causes the aging process to accelerate, and there is a fine balance between maintaining immune system function and longevity.

Deactivation of the HERV-K gene may free stem cells to become neurons.

Using artificial intelligence and neuroimaging, researchers have identified a link between mental imagery and vision. The brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision but uses low-level visual areas less...

An antique wooden box trimmed with brass holds all the tools that you might require in order to slay a vampire.

Study reveals the role the orbitofrontal cortex plays in individual differences to alcohol preference. The findings shed new light on how some are more prone to alcohol use disorder than others.

Mesh-like pencil sketches on paper can be used as sensors that detect heart rate, skin temperature and compounds in sweat

The first reliable way of isolating and growing sperm stem cells could lead to new fertility treatments, including correcting mutations that block sperm production

A dash of virtual reality helps replicate the serendipitous interactions of an in-person conference when participants are scattered across the globe. Physics poster sessions: a heady mix of science, networking and robots...

Hippocampal neurons that respond to fearful stimuli relay that information to the amygdala. These neurons synchronize when memories of the stimuli are later recalled. The synchrony is critical to establish fear memories ...

An EEG study reveals people with schizophrenia and their siblings without the disorder share patterns of brain activity that are different from people with no familial history of schizophrenia. As one sibling didn't suff...

Researchers from the Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) have discovered and theoretically explained a new physical effect: amplitude of mechanical vibrations can grow without external influence....

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Comet Neowise is currently putting on an impressive show for observers in the northern hemisphere, and you should be able to see it without binoculars or a telescope

A black panel of aluminium created by lasers can purify water containing human waste and heavy metals to drinkable standards, using just sunlight

Donated human lungs that are too damaged to use for transplant can be returned to a usable state by connecting them to a pig's blood supply for 24 hours

The datasets we used to train artificial intelligence often ingrain real-world prejudice. Cleaning up this biased data so that an AI makes fairer decisions doesn't have to make it less accurate

Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental probing as they do not occur in nature and, when synthesized, vanish within seconds. Pushing the forefront of atomic physi...

July 13, 2020--Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University report today that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2-D material--tungsten diselenide (WSe2)--creates localized states tha...

Unusual flint artifacts discovered in Jordan from about 7500 B.C. may have portrayed individual people in burial rituals, and could explain why human images became widespread in the Neolithic Near East.