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From the longest bird flight to the oldest identical twins, 2020 was filled with record-breaking science.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers have always known that waves were an important part of the cliff erosion process, but they haven't been able to separate the influence of waves and rain before. After de...

Here are nine cool ancient weapons discovered this year.

A brain network consisting of the thalamus, anterior and posterior cingulate cortex, and angular gyri was implicated in the loss, and return, of consciousness under both anesthetic and natural sleep.

Based on the activity in the auditory cortex and motor cortex, researchers were able to predict whether a participant was listening to music that was upbeat or sad.

Over the past few decades, many experimental physicists have been probing the existence of particles called axions, which would result from a specific mechanism that they think could explain the contradiction between the...

Quantum computer: One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been that the working devices that go into a quantum computer and perform the actual calculations, the qubits, have hith...

A multitasking nanomachine that can act as a heat engine and a refrigerator at the same time has been created by RIKEN engineers. The device is one of the first to test how quantum effects, which govern the behavior of p...

Tin is a commonplace metal that's used industrially in a thousand different ways. From the solder that holds your computer's motherboard together to the PVC plumbing under your sink, tin compounds are everywhere. In spit...

Both adults and kids who vape were more likely to report difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions than their non-vaping, non-smoking peers on two annual national surveys. Survey results also suggest tha...

Imaging techniques enable a detailed look inside an organism. But interpreting the data is time-consuming and requires a great deal of experience. Artificial neural networks open up new possibilities: They require just s...

The neural networks that power today's AI are incredibly powerful, but training them can require entire server farms and huge amounts of energy. A new approach from IBM suggests we may be able to slash that dramatically ...

Major climate summits delayed in 2020 are back on in 2021, offering several big opportunities to confront the climate emergency

Conservationists are using bats' echolocation abilities to help track these mammals, as many of them succumb to white nose syndrome.

From a man with green urine to a teenager with a sewing pin in his heart, a number of intriguing medical cases caught our eye this year.

(Kanazawa University) Kanazawa University's pioneering high-speed atomic force microscope technology has now shed light on the structure and dynamics of some of life's most ubiquitous and inscrutable molecules - intrinsi...