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(Stony Brook University) China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal. A team of international scientists led by Stony Brook University's Gang He, PhD, contend that China needs to transition away from coal ...

Summary: In males, a genetic variant of DUSP8 can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by impairing the brain’s response to insulin. Source: DZD The brain plays a major role in controlling our blood glucose levels. In ...

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Though 5G--a next-generation speed upgrade to wireless networks--is scarcely up and running (and still nonexistent in many places) researchers are already working on what comes next. It lacks an official name, but they'r...

In science fiction, firing powerful lasers looks easy--the Death Star can just send destructive power hurtling through space as a tight beam. But in reality, once a powerful laser has been fired, care must be taken to en...

A small, soft smacked into Costa Rica on April 23, 2019. And it carried dust older than our sun, as well as clues regarding how life formed on Earth.

California is on fire, with more than 360 individual blazes scorching across the state. Unsurprisingly, the effects are visible from space.

Two clouds of cold-star forming gas are sailing on the Milky Way's hot nuclear wind, and nobody can explain why.

There's no record of two hurricanes being in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time. Next week, that could change.

University of Central Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge field of attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all disciplines.

The way zebrafish respond to repeated exposure and withdrawal from nicotine mirrors more complex human responses during withdrawal.

Nearly a month after a ship struck a coral reef off the island nation of Mauritius, causing a catastrophic oil spill, tugboats lugged it out to sea where it is now going to be sunk.

Study unravels the neural basis of freezing behaviors in fruit flies and provides a novel insight into how the brain perceives and responds to social cues.

The mood in which a baby is in when it learns new information plays a key role in their ability to recall information.

Coercion to perform detrimental actions against others reduces empathy and guilt, a new study reports. The findings may explain why people are able to commit immoral acts that go against their ethical stance when coerced...

Calcium activity mediated by Piezo1 channels regulates the pathfinding of blood vessels in the developing brain.

Some oppose the plan, citing environmental concerns.

Wildfires blanketing several Western cities are creating hazardous health conditions. Don't count on cloth masks to protect your lungs.

A man with a rare brain lesion sees the right half of every face as if it is melting. This could suggest that each brain hemisphere typically processes one half of the face

Multicolor single-mode polarized microlasers containing an output range from visible light to the near-infrared have significant applications in photonic integration and multimodal chemical sensing or imaging application...

The microbes embedded in a tumour seem to influence how a person's cancer will develop and how well they will respond to treatment

As scientific voids go, it would be hard just now to find a more pressing question: How do the aerosols that carry the invisible coronavirus travel on the air after they leave an infected person?