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"The flat earthers, the anti vaxxers, the anti maskers are not on board with the progress of science. And the thing is, it affects all of us," Bill Nye said.

RNA keeps some of life's most important processes humming, from building your body's proteins to silencing genes.

Researchers have identified a signaling pathway in the hippocampus that plays a critical role in creates novel memories about new environments.

People make automatic and efficient decisions when learning to avoid others. When learning to avoid harming themselves, people make become more deliberative. The study also found people were more willing to repeat decisi...

Researchers have identified a novel neural network in fruit flies that converts external stimuli of varying intensity into decisions about whether to act.

People who experience severe apathy have a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, a new study reports.

A new test of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has proved the 20th Century physicist right again, this time using a supermassive black hole.

Despite its decades of predictive success, there are important phenomena left unexplained by the Standard Model of particle physics. Additional theories must exist that can fully describe the universe, even though defini...

Fourteen out of 22 players developed COVID-19 after the game.

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Homotherium, a sabre-toothed cat that lived in the Americas and Eurasia during the most recent ice age, was a swift and social predator, according to its genes

Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major research area in condensed matter physics. Many topological phases are predicted in lattices with specific engineering o...

A covid-19 infection survey by the UK Office for National Statistics is seen as the gold standard for tracking the coronavirus, but response rates have plummeted, which risks the results being unreliable

It's rare to find tyrannosaur baby bones, but now researchers have two: a toe claw and a jawbone.

Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you're much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no.

The drug has been tested in mice and a small group of human patients.

Blue-light filtering glasses help improve sleep and work productivity, a new study reveals. The effects are most pronounced in those who consider themselves to be "night owls".

The tiny droplets in which our cells store fats are swarming with immune system proteins, which can be used to wipe out dangerous bacteria

A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster are on a collision course. If they hit each other, it would create two orbiting clouds of hazardous shrapnel that could threaten other satellites

Sudden climatic changes may have been a significant driver of the extinction of early human species, including the Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis

A landslide created a perilously wide gap in the forest canopy on China's Hainan Island, so researchers made rope bridges to help the endangered Hainan gibbons get across

A miniature fluorescence microscope that weighs less while offering high resolution compared to existing devices will have a range of applications in systems biology. Existing miniature fluorescence microscopes are a sta...