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In a potential step forward for imaging technology, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a way to use neutrons to detect electric field...

Flu activity in the U.S. right now is at "historical lows," according to a new report.

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Structural and functional coupling in visual areas of the mouse brain can be detected at sub-cellular resolution in vitro.

Shoes that raise the toes away from the ground make walking easier but weaken the foot, which might increase the risk of a painful condition called plantar fasciitis

A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft's name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland. Inside were 864 servers, and their submersion was pa...

Wolf howls may have served as a danger signal to our ancestors - and modern emergency sirens may be an effective way to alert us because they sound like howls

Titan triggerfish that live in the Red Sea will deliberately launch themselves onto the beach to catch and eat ghost crabs crawling along the shore

A defective protein quality control system leads to motor neuron death associated with disorders like ALS.

In mice lacking the GLT-1 transporter, cortical spreading depression, a neural excitation that underlies migraine pathology, occurred more frequently and sp

Women who experience reproductive periods for more than 38 years are at increased risk of developing dementia later in life. The study found dementia and Alzheimer's risk increased successively for every additional year ...

Researchers have uncovered the structure of psychedelic compounds when they actively bind to the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor on the surface of brain cells. The discovery could lead to the exploration of more precise compou...

Supercooling liquid water to temperatures lower than ever achieved before has revealed new evidence that water is two liquids in one

High-speed cameras can take pictures in quick succession. This makes them useful for visualizing ultrafast dynamic phenomena, such as femtosecond laser ablation for precise machining and manufacturing processes, fast ign...

An international collaboration of theoretical physicists--including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and the RIKEN-BNL Research Center (RBRC)--has published a new...

Supercooled water is really two liquids in one. That's the conclusion reached by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory after making the first-ever measurements of liquid...

Other vaccine makers have been criticized for giving too little information on their clinical trials.

Researchers analyzed DNA from more than 400 skeletons to understand who the Vikings really were.

One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced dynamics of molecules is to observe time-dependent changes in the structure of molecules, which result from the absorption of light, as directly and unambig...

During space-communication researchers require high-space intersatellite data transfer connectivity for deep-space missions while monitoring Earth. The technology is fundamentally influenced by available transmission pow...

Particle accelerators like the LHC require intricate beam dump systems to safely dispose of high-energy particles after each run. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. It hu...

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