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Perceived animacy decreases significantly as a function of exposure time for android faces.

An international contest for space photography awarded its top prize to the photographer who captured a unique view of the Andromeda galaxy.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to quickly adapt to circumstances that were unimaginable a year ago. Companies are finding new ways to do business, and in the process we're seeing an acceleration of technologies t...

By adding a molecule that disrupts certain pathways in cells, researchers have discovered a new way to limit inflammation from adjuvants in vaccinations.

Study suggests an alternative strategy for restoring cellular abnormalities in in-vitro models of Parkinson's disease.

Infections with this organism are almost universally fatal, with less than a 3% survival rate.

Researchers conduct the first study to use nonharmful stress, like intermittent systemic hypoxia, to protect against disease in the first generation offspring in mice.

Incorporating simple lifestyle changes, like improving diet, using brain training programs, and exercise may help improve cognition in older adults experiencing cognitive decline.

Study provides new insight into how brain waves control the flow of information through the cortex.

The halting of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial isn't cause for worry - it is a sign the research process is working as it is supposed to, says Clare Wilson

Researchers have shown why intense, pure red colors in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of the structural color that produces bright blue and green hues.

Lasing--the emission of a collimated light beam of light with a well-defined wavelength (color) and phase--results from a self-organization process, in which a collection of emission centers synchronizes itself to produc...

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The wreck of a German warship torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine in 1940 has been discovered in deep water off the North Sea coast of southern Norway.

A handful of people across the world appear to have caught the coronavirus twice, suggesting that immunity against the virus doesn't last - and could potentially make second infections worse

A team of researchers at Harvard University has developed a way to cool nonlinear polyatomic molecules to extremely cold temperatures. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their method and...

Mysterious midnight disaster spared critical electronics in iconic alien-hunting telescope called the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

People who tested positive for COVID-19 were twice as likely to report dining at a restaurant before becoming sick than people who tested negative.

A few dozen mountain lions are trapped in a rural patch of Los Angeles by highways that limit their movement, and have become so inbred they developed kinks in their tails

(Springer) New research published in EPJ Plus aims to better understand the electron transport properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and how they are affected by bonding with aromatics - a key step in designing techn...

(Science China Press) Birefringence and linear dichroism in anisotropic materials would break down the selection rule for angle-resolved polarized Raman (ARPR) intensity. Recently, a research team led by Prof. Ping-Heng ...

(Harvard University) Harvard researchers describe using a novel method combining cryogenic technology and direct laser light to cool the nonlinear polyatomic molecule calcium monomethoxide (CaOCH3) to just above absolute...