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It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang

We thought we understood life's minimal energy requirements - but microbes beneath the sea floor survive on hundreds of times less energy than we considered possible

Archaeologists have found Iron Age temples and medieval structures in Northern Ireland.

Brain responses of ten-month-old babies could predict whether the child would enjoy watching fast-paced television shows six months later.

Human brain maps are a dime a dozen these days. Maps that detail neurons in a certain region. Maps that draw out functional connections between those cells. Maps that dive deeper into gene expression. Or even meta-maps t...

(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) A radical proposal to use the laws of physics before, not after, machine learning computations are performed has won a DOE Early Career award for a Sandia researcher.

T cells that recognize common cold coronaviruses also recognize specific sites on SARS-CoV-2.

Beta2-adrenergic receptors in brown fat cells are responsible for stimulating thermogenesis.

There might be nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought.

Cortisol levels are altered in people experiencing bereavement, causing possible consequences for health.

Solving the Conway knot problem took mathematician Lisa Piccirillo on a journey into the fourth dimension. Here's how she did it

Shareable online graphics give easy to understand breakdowns of the nutritional content of food, but they may be misleading, says James Wong

The nuclear bomb told us we are the greatest threat to our own survival - and the covid-19 pandemic shows the lessons still to learn, say Anders Sandberg and Thomas Moynihan

Putting spells on the moon, plus science limericks and knights patrolling social distancing, in Feedback's weird weekly round-up

Obesity and higher body mass are linked to decreased cerebral blood flow. Lower cerebral blood flow is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and a range of psychiatric disorders.

But few "gold standard" trials have been completed on the therapy, so take the results with a grain of salt.

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Here's what we know so far about the cause of the massive blast in the port area of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, on 4 August

Study finds allele-specific open chromatin variants are likely to be linked to several neuropsychiatric traits and illnesses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The geometry of an object indicates its shape or the relationship of its parts to each other. Did you know that the electrons in solids also have geometric structures? In quantum mechanics, an electron in solids takes th...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) brought the atomic scale imaging resolution of scanning tunneling microscopy, a technique that won the Nobel Prize in Physics, to non-conducting surfaces. However, limitations remain when tr...