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An international team tracking 'new physics' neutrinos has checked the data of all the relevant experiments associated with neutrino detections against Standard Model extensions proposed by theorists. The latest analysis...

Cleaning and organizing can have a positive effect on our psychological wellbeing. Dr. Stacey Bedwell explores how cleaning and organizational projects around the home can help boost satisfaction, pleasure, and feelings ...

A lot of the predictions we hear about the future involve a hot, crowded planet, one where we need some serious science to figure out how to feed everyone and control rising global temperatures. The UN's population forec...

People with subjectively felt memory deficits also exhibited measurable cognitive deficits that were associated with abnormalities in spinal fluid.

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The runaway star is traveling at nearly 600,000 mph and lost most of its mass to a mysterious explosion.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the closest ever images of the sun, revealing miniature solar flares on its surface dubbed "campfires"

(Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies ) A new guidebook based on research by Yale and NYU scholars offers a roadmap for installing rooftop solar panels in communities that are often overlooked when it comes to...

(University of Basel) An international consortium of scientists has refined the map of caesium and plutonium radionuclide concentrations in soils in Switzerland and several neighbouring countries. Using an archive of Eur...

New images of the solar surface, the closest ever seen, included a flaw that resembled a tardigrade.

High levels of iron in the blood have a negative impact on aging. Keeping the levels in check could prevent age-related health and neurodegenerative problems.

Around 20 per cent of the beef and soya the Euopean Union imports from Brazil has been linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna

People are struggling with uncertainty, isolation, fear and concerns about money or education - leading to elevated levels of anxiety and depression during the pandemic

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University of Cincinnati physicists celebrated a new world record as part of a research team working on a Japanese particle collider.

Nanophotonics considers how light and matter at the nanoscale interact with each other, with findings in the field being important for nanofabrication techniques and in future photonic devices. Until recently, metallic n...

The quantum realm holds the key to the next revolution in communication technology as we know it. With the promise of unprecedented performance and impenetrable security, quantum technology is taking its first steps towa...

Sea turtles' ability to navigate across open oceans is legendary, but GPS tracking shows they can miss their targets, sometimes swimming up to four times further than needed

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have engineered the lightest optical mirror imaginable. The novel metamaterial is made of a single structured layer that consists only of a few hundred ident...

For the first time ever, physicists have spotted rare, ghostly particles, called CNO solar neutrinos, produced by a weird kind of fusion inside the sun.

When some lizards lose a tail they grow back more than one, and multi-tailed lizards are more common than once thought.

A summer of many Mars missions is about to began as the United Arab Emirates prepares to launch its first Mars mission, the Hope orbiter