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A Russian-German research team has created a quantum sensor that grants access to measurement and manipulation of individual two-level defects in qubits. The study by NUST MISIS, Russian Quantum Center and the Karlsruhe ...

Groundbreaking discovery could potentially reduce multiple pediatric heart valve replacement surgeries.

The InSight lander has observed more than 500 marsquakes so far, and it has used these ripples to measure the size of Mars's core and confirm that it is liquid

Using rhesus macaques, researchers have developed a new model of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on stress in both pregnant and postpartum women. Researchers say this is concerning as prenatal stress can hamper fetal brain development.

The covid-19 pandemic, a trade war between the US and China and a drought in Taiwan have impacted the availability of computer chips for cars, appliances and video game consoles

The European Medicines Agency said the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks.

Neuroimaging reveals when babies focus their attention, they utilize areas of the frontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with more advanced functions and previously believed to be immature in children under a ye...

Disembodied human tear glands, grown in petri dishes in a laboratory in the Netherlands, have learned to cry -- and the scientists who created them have already grafted them into the eyes of living mice.

Researchers investigate the role the blood-brain barrier may play in age-related memory problems.

One of the keys to having a healthy brain at any age is having a healthy blood-brain barrier, a complex interface of blood vessels that run through the brain. Researchers reviewed more than 150 articles to look at what h...

Researchers have developed a new statistical model that predicts which cities are more likely to become infectious disease hotspots, based both on interconnectivity between cities and the idea that some cities are more s...

Aedes aegypti are the primary vector for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever. However, the effects of climate change-related weather anomalies on mosquito populations is not well understood. A new study suggests...

Even as vaccines are becoming more readily available in the U.S., protecting against the asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic spread of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic, say disease e...

The model embryos could shed light on early human development.

COVID-19 disproportionately affects men compared with women, raising the possibility that a hormone like progesterone may improve clinical outcomes for certain hospitalized men with the disease. New research supports thi...

A bizarre shark with wing-like side fins soared through an ancient sea 93 million years ago in what is now Mexico.

A parasite that causes visceral leishmaniasis, a disease that can be fatal, ups its chances of spreading by making the dogs it inhabits smell good to sandflies that can go on to bite humans

A Mexican fossil belongs to a shark that lived more than 90 million years ago and had wings like a manta ray, which may have helped it swim in place while feeding on plankton

The 2019-20 bushfire season in Australia led to record levels of stratospheric aerosols over the southern hemisphere, according to satellite data

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Protection also passes to the fetus through the placenta and to newborns through breast milk.