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Cockroaches were thought to be solitary insects, but a South American species bucks the trend - it lives in large groups and seems to have sterile workers led by a queen

Two teams working independently of each other have demonstrated designs for electrocaloric cooling that can change temperatures under an electric field. Both groups used lead scandium tantalate capacitors in their system...

The app uses bluetooth technology to alert people that they've been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19.

(University of Huddersfield) The potential readership of the two books, published recently during the COVID-19 pandemic by Professor Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, goes beyond pharmacy specialists to include all healthcare profess...

Strangelets, and specifically nuclearites, their heavy species, are very dense, compact and potentially fast objects made of large and roughly equal numbers of up, down and strange quarks, which may inhabit the universe....

Fishers in Sardinia, Italy caught a skinless, toothless shark in a world first, new study says.

It's believed to be the first locally acquired case of the disease in Australia.

Like the syndrome in children, MIS-A is a severe illness that targets multiple organs and causes increased inflammation.

Trump attended around 15 events in various states, from the 2020 presidential debate to fundraisers and rallies over the past several days.

A young woman's nose and lips were cut off in about A.D. 800, likely as a punishment.

p11, a protein implicated in serotonin function, affects the initial release of cortisol in mice by modulating the activity of specific neurons in the hypothalamus. Previous studies found people with depression lave lowe...

People with Parkinson's disease have a 30% higher risk of dying from coronavirus infection than those without the neurodegenerative disorder. A new study suggests Parkinson's is an independent risk factor for COVID-19 mo...

A combination of two substances secreted by the immune system can cure and prevent rotavirus infection, as well as potentially treat other viral infections that target epithelial cells, which cover body surfaces such as ...

The brain cells survived under volcanic flows for nearly 2,000 years.

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It's Fat Bear Week at the Brooks River in Alaska.

A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.

Scientists have discovered that a specific type of molecule may stimulate stem cells to regenerate, reversing the inflammation caused by periodontal disease.

This comes a month before the 2020 presidential election and a couple of days after Trump's and former Vice President Joe Biden's chaotic first presidential debate in Ohio.

Biology textbooks may need to be re-written, with scientists finding a new piece of DNA essential to forming male sex organs in mice.

Researchers have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance serotonin and for the release of stress hormones, at least in mice. The findings may have implic...

IonQ, a College Park, Maryland-based quantum computing hardware and software company has announced that it has launched its next generation quantum computer. As part of its announcement, the company is claiming that its ...