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Neuralink's wildly anticipated demo last Friday left me with more questions than answers. With a presentation teeming with promises and vision but scant on data, the event nevertheless lived up to its main goal as a memo...

Astrophysicists are combining multiple methods to reveal the secrets of some of the weirdest objects in the universe. Neutron stars are arguably the strangest objects in the cosmos. Born from the deaths of massive stars,...

Alterations in the excitation and inhibition balance is regulated in the developing brain by astrocytes via the ephrin-B1 protein. The loss of astrocytic ephrin-B1 alters the E/I balance by reducing inhibition, resulting...

Digital sleep therapy could be an effective method to treat insomnia and reduce the use of sleeping pills.

Glass windows typically offer some amount of soundproofing, sometimes unintentionally. In general, ventilation is required to achieve large sound transmission.

A New Scientist investigation has found that some of the world's richest people are funding geoengineering plans that would transform the world's oceans to combat climate change

Spectroscopy is an important tool of observation in many areas of science and industry. Infrared spectroscopy is especially important in the world of chemistry, where it is used to analyze and identify molecules. The cur...

Study refutes any association between the H1N1 vaccine given to pregnant women and an increased risk of autism diagnosis in children.

Neurons can counteract degeneration and promote survival by adapting their metabolism.

Neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex respond more to loss than to gain. Avoidance of risk-taking is affected by an area of the hippocampus that is associated with memory and anxiety. The findings suggest a close relat...

The fortress was built to stop the Philistines, who wanted more land.

Early postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy may protect some women from developing Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers propose an alternative mechanism to explain the link between hearing loss and dementia. The study sheds light on the role of the medial temporal lobe in auditory cognition.

T-cells are a key part of our immune system, but some say they have been overlooked during the coronavirus pandemic

With the addition of just a small number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road, traffic flow can become faster, greener, and safer in the near future, a new study suggests.

The multiverse is one of the weirdest ideas in science – but it might just be real. Find out how in the second episode of our new video series, Science with Sam

If the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines aren't enough to convince you that face shields alone shouldn't be used to stop the spread of COVID-19, then maybe a new visualization stud...

Droplets from a simulation cough spread about 3 feet to the front and sides of the face shield.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have succeeded in independently manipulating two different types of magnetism within a single atom. The results are relevant for the development of extremely small forms of d...

A long-retired NASA satellite burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, the agency has confirmed.

A neural network learned to deliver sermons like Jesus (sort of ) after it was trained on the King James Bible.

It is very hard to take a photo of a hummingbird flapping its wings 50 times per second. The exposure time has to be much shorter than the characteristic time scale of the wing beat, otherwise you will only see a colorfu...