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The sequencing of the human genome was one of the greatest scientific feats of the past century, but it's a little-known fact that it's still a work in progress with considerable gaps. New research suggests we could be j...

Things can always be done faster, but can anything beat light? Computing with light instead of electricity is seen as a breakthrough to boost computer speeds. Transistors, the building blocks of data circuits, are requir...

Researchers used magnetic nanodiscs that can be activated by external magnetic fields to mechanically stimulate cells. The new method may be a useful tool for researching neural responses.

Trained musicians exhibited an increased ability to predict rhythmic patterns over non-musicians, with more subtle differences between those trained in Japanese or Western classical music styles.

In a famous parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. Each touches a part--the trunk, ear, or side--and concludes the creature is a thick snake, fan, or wall. This elephant, said Kang-Kuen Ni, is...

(National Research Council of Science & Technology) A research team of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST), working in cooperation with the Technische Universität Berlin, announced that they had develope...

Just over a decade ago in April 2009, the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) produced its first light at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Sou...

Quantum magnetometry, one of the most important applications in quantum metrology, aims to measure the magnetic field with the highest precision. Although estimation of one component of a magnetic field has been well stu...

The larvae of a north-east Asian beetle can biodegrade polystyrene, converting it to carbon dioxide and small chemical fragments, meaning they could help break down the millions of tonnes of polystyrene waste produced ea...

A COVID-19 vaccine under trial in the UK is safe, has few side effects, and induces a strong immune response in both parts of the immune system within 14 days of administration.

Hungarian scientists accidentally created a hybrid of a Russian sturgeon and an American paddlefish, leading to a long-nosed "sturddlefish" baby.

Cell types responsible for causing goosebumps are also important for regulating the stem cells that regenerate hair follicles and hair.

Older adults with a higher ability to process sensations, including vision, olfaction, hearing, and touch, had half the risk of being diagnosed with cognitive decline than their peers who were less capable at sensory pro...

Analysis of over 2,000 brain scans revealed evidence of highly reproducible sex differences in the volume of different regions of the brain. On average, females had greater cortical volume in the medial and lateral prefr...

Oxytocin, the so-called "love hormone," could help to treat cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. Researchers demonstrated oxytocin reversed the effects of amyloid-beta on hippocampal LTP in mice. The findi...

The Oxford vaccine triggered participants to build up immune cells against the virus without causing any severe reactions.

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If civilization ever succumbs to global warming, nuclear annihilation, an unrelenting pandemic or a martian invasion, some future civilization--or alien life form--might well still be able to reconstruct today's computer...

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After the Bighorn Fire burned a large area near Pima County, Arizona, a river of dark sludge rushed toward town.

DNA's most famous form is a double helix, but it can exist in other arrangements, and a quadruple-stranded version has been discovered in healthy human cells

Unchecked climate change will doom all but one of the world's populations of polar bears before the end of the century, as vanishing sea ice increases their annual fasts beyond their limits