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A muscle fiber consists of just one cell, but many nuclei. A team has now shown just how varied these nuclei are. The study can help us better understand muscle diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment collaboration - which made a precise measurement of an important neutrino property eight years ago, setting the stage for a new round o...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) The appealing array of fruit and candy flavors that entice millions of young people take up vaping can harm their hearts, a preclinical study by University of South Florida Heal...

Here's how mRNA vaccines work, and why they could make such a difference for vaccine development.

The vaccine appeared safe and effective, but some participants falsely tested positive for HIV.

An imbalance in gut bacteria can cause the reduction of some metabolites, resulting in depression-like symptoms. The findings contribute to the growing body of evidence for the role the microbiome plays in brain function...

Archaeologists in Israel have found an ancient altar to Pan that was repurposed as a brick in a church wall.

A realtor sends a prospective homebuyer a blurry photograph of a house taken from across the street. The homebuyer can compare it to the real thing--look at the picture, then look at the real house--and see that the bay ...

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High-intensity interval training strengthens the heart even more than moderate exercise does. Now researchers have found several answers to what makes hard workouts so effective.

Phase transitions describe dramatic changes in properties of a macroscopic system--like the transition from a liquid to a gas. Starting from individual ultracold atoms, Heidelberg University physicists were able to obser...

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment collaboration--which made a precise measurement of an important neutrino property eight years ago, setting the stage for a new round of experiments and discoveries about these har...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and other institutions in Paris, Hamburg and Basel, have succeeded in setting a new record in X-ray mic...

Like much of the world, scientists thrive on coffee. It's not just because of the caffeine though, it turns out that even spilled coffee fuels research.Most people are annoyed by nagging coffee stains, but to physicist S...

Advances in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) can allow cryo-imaging of biological and biochemical systems in liquid form, however, such approaches do not possess advanced analytical capabilities. In a new report no...

The display of a smartphone reacts to finger pressure. The carnivorous Venus flytrap, on the other hand, even notices when a lightweight like a fly lands on it. Special genes make this possible.

From cultured meat to plant-based foods to robotic kitchen assistants, tech seems to be infiltrating every corner of our food system. And it's a good thing, because we're sorely in need of ways to make more and better-qu...

By: Hannah Pell In the 2004 movie National Treasure, the main character Ben Gates -- a historian, cryptographer, and treasure hunter played by Nicholas Cage -- is determined to solve the generational mystery passed down ...

An unexpected mathematical connection between a special kind of mechanical motion and the behavior of light has been uncovered by three RIKEN physicists1. This strange link could help physicists to design future particle...

Despite its vanishingly tiny mass, the existence of the axion, once proven, may point to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Theorized to explain a fundamental symmetry problem in the strong nuclear force associated w...

An army officer was among the first people to inspect wreckage of a so-called UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, and he may have recorded clues about what he saw in a journal.

We don't know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age.