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Hyperactivation in specific brain areas may be an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease. Researchers found those who reported concerns over diminished memory skills, and with other risk factors for Alzheimer's, showed ...

A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn't fully explain this, but now, a Physical Review Letter by Ireth Ga...

Magnetic bead toys are particularly dangerous for young children, who may accidentally swallow them.

COVID-19 vaccines are still expected to work against the new variant.

New research shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced both antibody and inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice.

Though 76 per cent of people in Manaus, Brazil have covid-19 antibodies, the virus is spreading quickly - potentially fuelled by a new variant - which may mean herd immunity by infection is not possible

Ever ridden a teacup ride at a state fair? If so, you might have a small taste of life in a whirling, twirling sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system.

NASA's Cassini mission spotted a strange signal coming from Saturn's second-largest moon Rhea - it may be from hydrazine, a compound often used in rocket fuel

The phenomenon can be difficult to observe from the ground below.

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have put forward a detailed plan of how faster and better defined quantum bits--qubits--can be created. The central elements are magnetic atoms from the class of so-called...

An excavation revealed a previously unknown church and inscription, possibly dating to Byzantine times.

Ancestors of giant Bobbit worms may have colonized the seafloor millions of years ago, building long, narrow burrows where they would wait for unsuspecting prey.

The number of bee species appears to have declined sharply in the past 30 years, which could mean many types of bee are extinct or so rare that no one has recording a sighting

It hasn't been a great few months for museums, what with the pandemic shutting many of them down and forcing the rest to greatly limit visitors. But a new, well-timed art exhibit went on display last month in London, and...

A team of researchers from the U.K., Germany and Russia has used the unpredictable nature of quantum mechanics to create a device capable of generating truly random numbers. In their paper published in the journal Physic...

The universe may be filled with "mirror" particles -- and these otherwise-undetectable particles could be shrinking the densest stars in the universe, turning them into black holes.

In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19, rhesus macaque monkeys infected with the human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 developed protective immune responses that might be reproduced with a vaccine.

Loneliness in adults aged 50 and over during the COVID-19 lockdown was linked to worsening depressive and other mental health symptoms, according to a large-scale online study.

Quantum entanglement could in theory lead to extremely precise clocks that can hunt for subtle disturbances in space-time.

Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a novel measurement method of the electro-optic (EO) coefficient based on the �...

Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal through the atmospher...

The haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study finds.