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A team has identified several new potential molecular targets in endothelial cells and microglia for AD drug development.

People whose treatment for cancer is delayed by even one month have in many cases a 6 to 13% higher risk of dying - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment does not begin.

Rice farming near Cambodia's largest lake has spread and reduced flooded forests and grasslands by about a third over the past 15 years, taking over the habitat of threatened species

Study reveals the globus pallidus plays a critical role in fear processing.

As scientists await the highly anticipated initial results of the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, collaborating scientists from DOE's Argonne National L...

A new study argues the way in which humans store memories is key to making human intelligence more superior to that of animals.

Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has successfully ada...

Levels of the stress hormone cortisol in earwax could be a new way to track anxiety, depression and other medical conditions.

The researchers say this is the longest anyone has been reported to be contagious with COVID-19 while remaining asymptomatic.

Species including reindeer and golden eagles are migrating earlier each year as the world warms, according to a study of the movements of 86 Arctic species over three decades

Even if all other sources of emissions immediately disappeared, the current global food production system would produce enough greenhouse gases to exceed the international target of limiting warming to 1.5°C

Researchers have developed a new imaging spectrometer that is much lighter and smaller than state-of-the-art instruments while maintaining the same high level of performance. Because of its small size and modular design,...

The chemical element phosphorus is considered one of the most essential elements for life. Phosphorus compounds are deeply involved in the structure and function of organisms. Every human carries about one kilogram of it...

8,000 years ago in Indonesia, a child was buried without their leg and arm bones, a common practice at that time and place.

The Danish government has ordered the slaughter of all farmed mink in the country after the reported discovery of a mutant form of coronavirus in the animals. It has already spread to humans

The Danish government has ordered the slaughter of all farmed mink in the country after the reported discovery of a mutant form of coronavirus in the animals. It has already spread to humans

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A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a method for reducing aerodynamic noise via plasma. Cavity flow, such as the flow around car gaps of high-speed ...

The first quantum revolution brought about semiconductor electronics, the laser and finally the internet. The coming, second quantum revolution promises spy-proof communication, extremely precise quantum sensors and quan...

A team of physicists affiliated with several institutions in Japan and one in Belgium has theorized that one of the mechanisms responsible for the neutron drip line is related to deformation. In their paper published in ...

For several decades, physicists and astrophysicists have theorized about the existence of dark matter in the universe. This elusive type of matter would be made up of particles that do not absorb, reflect or emit light, ...

When Dolly the sheep was born in 1996, she instantly achieved worldwide fame for being the first-ever animal to be cloned from an adult cell. Since then, she hasn't had many competitors for the title of "world's most fam...