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The idea that interstellar object 'Oumuamua is a hydrogen iceberg has a flaw.

(University of Exeter) Pioneering new research has highlighted some of the political difficulties with the UK's energy transition, in particular around vested fossil fuel interests.

In an important step toward practical implementation of secure quantum-based communication, researchers have demonstrated secure measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) transmission over a recor...

Let's take inspiration from the way we intervene to help degraded ecosystems recover and attempt to restore the atmosphere back to full health, writes Graham Lawton

Over the past two decades, a new area at the interface of semiconductor physics, electronics and quantum mechanics has been gaining popularity among theoretical physicists and experimenters. This new field is called spin...

Handgrip strength correlates with cognitive function, attention, and psychomotor function in older men. No association was found between muscle mass and cognitive function.

Bisexual people are over six times more likely to engage in non-suicidal self-injury than people of other sexual orientations, a new study reports. Symptoms of depression and anxiety were contributory factors to the self...

Researchers identified a group of closely related genes that capture molecular links between Alzheimer's and LATE, a common brain disorder that mimics Alzheimer's symptoms.

The adult nervous system of a C. elegans worm contains 302 neurons, which can be divided into 118 types. Seventy homeobox genes are involved in characterizing the neuron types.

There could be 6.8 million fewer girls born in India between 2017 and 2030 than would be expected without practices such as sex-selective abortion

We have discovered a new factor that helped dinosaurs attain gigantic sizes: their bones were built differently from other animals to be less dense without sacrificing strength

A plastic that can be easily broken down and remoulded into high-quality products should make recycling easier and reduce plastic waste entering the environment

Nubian Levallois flints thought to date from 100,000 years ago have been found in Israel's Negev Desert, the farthest north that the distinctive technology attributed to early modern humans has been found so far.

The systems of science are perpetuating bias, hype, negligence and fraud - and this means far too many findings are worthless, says psychologist Stuart Ritchie

We are finally solving the mystery of why motion can make us queasy - just in time to help us deal with nausea-inducing VR headsets, driverless cars and space tourism

c-Fos accumulates in the nucleus of peripheral nerve cells of mouse models of chronic pain. Researchers identified around 30 existing drugs that appear to target the importin alpha-3-c-Fos pathway to help treat chronic p...

Toddlers who frequently use touchscreen technology may have an edge over their peers who are not routinely exposed to the technology when it comes to visual search abilities.

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Traditional ways of producing entanglements, necessary for the development of any 'quantum internet' linking quantum computers, are not very well suited for fiber optic telecoms networks used by today's non-quantum inter...

Some cancer cells spread through the lymphatic system where they can pick up a jacket of fatty acids that protect them against damage and let them travel further in the body

There are clouds of cold hydrogen gas hurtling at extraordinary speeds away from the centre of our galaxy, and this may be stifling star formation

A team of researchers at DESY has reached an important milestone on the road to the particle accelerator of the future. For the first time, a so-called laser plasma accelerator has run for more than a day while continuou...