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New research that simultaneously measures brain activity in children and their parents offers insights into bonding.

While AI can carry out some impressive feats when trained on millions of data points, the human brain can often learn from a tiny number of examples. New research shows that borrowing architectural principles from the br...

(University of Montreal) A Canadian-led team of astronomers discovers that the core mass of exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than previously thought possible for a gas-giant planet.

Spiritualist mediums, those who believe they can hear and communicate with the dead, are more prone to immersive mental activities and unusual auditory experiences in early life.

More people could be protected from life-threatening rabies thanks to an agile approach to dog vaccination using smart phone technology to spot areas of low vaccination coverage in real time. The work could help save the...

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The UK government has confirmed it still plans to create an independent £800 million "blue skies" research agency as soon as possible, despite the resignation of its key proponent

A study across New York City found that out-of-hospital sudden deaths follow the geographic distribution of SARS-CoV-2, suggesting an association between the two, investigators report.

Targeted neuromodulation tailored to individual patients' distinctive symptoms is an increasingly common way of correcting misfiring brain circuits in people with epilepsy or Parkinson's disease. Now, scientists have dem...

Images of a protein involved in creating a potent antibiotic reveal the unusual first steps of the antibiotic's synthesis. The improved understanding of the chemistry behind this process could allow researchers to adapt ...

Researchers have developed a new computational tool to accurately differentiate between cancer cells and normal cells when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing data.

Lithium batteries that operate at a higher temperature could be cheaper and safer than other batteries for electric cars

The Australian lungfish's genome is around 14 times larger than the human one, and its DNA confirms it is closely related to land-based animals with a backbone

It can be observed every time you take a shower: Small droplets of water join together to form larger and larger drops--until they are so heavy that they run down the wall. Scientists call this daily-life phenomenon coal...

Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century and of the civil rights movement. And they were more alike than many may have thought.

Spintronics is an emerging area of research that aims to develop devices that transmit, process and store information leveraging the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, known as spin. A key objective of spintronics ...

Maxwell equations govern the evolution of electromagnetic fields with light being a particular solution of these equations in spaces devoid of electric charge. A new study published in EPJ C by Alexi Morozov and Nikita T...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has used drones to create a prototype of a small airborne quantum network. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the research...

NUS physicists have developed a method to induce the transition of a rare-earth nickelate from their native perovskite form to infinite-layer structures. This allowed them to build a complete phase diagram of this nickel...

Why is studying spin properties of one-dimensional quantum nanowires important?

Data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope has revealed a bizarre new type of hybrid venomous spider star.

Watch as RNA dances and wiggles into its final form.