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NASA conducted its second major test of its powerful new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, and it was mostly a success.

A $35 bowl sold at a yard sale was estimated to be worth up to $500,000. It sold for over $700,000.

Ancient Egyptians abandoned the coastal city of Berenike between 220 and 200 BC due to a drought, which may have been caused by a volcanic eruption disrupting the weather

A new genetic engineering strategy significantly reduces levels of tau in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. The treatment, which involves a single injection, appears to have long-last effects.

Researchers have developed a new device that can record, sense, and manipulate brain organoids. The device will allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries about how the brain develops and identify mechanisms of...

An intensive retreat program that exposes people to neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, helps improve positive emotion while reducing stress, anxiety, and negative emotions.

Virtual reality can help reduce painful sensations following touch people with nerve damage experience.

Children at high risk for dyslexia have trouble learning new words after hearing them, a new study reports. Results show those at risk of dyslexia have border difficulties in processing language in the brain, which may a...

The LSM12-EPAC1 pathway is an important suppressor of the NCT-related pathologies associated with ALS and FTD.

People who experience fewer stressors in daily life report better emotional stability, moods, and overall health. However, those who are less stressed score worse on cognitive tests than those who experience daily stress...

Zookeepers from two zoos in the Czech Republic have set up big screens to allow their chimps to interact with each other via a video call.

When a gargantuan iceberg calved off of Antarctica last month, it revealed a bustling community of sea life for the first time in decades.

The discovery has implications for our understanding of whale culture.

About 41 million people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated.

In 1961, physicist Ugo Fano provided the first theoretical explanation to an anomalous asymmetry observed in the spectral profiles of noble gases. He put forth an impactful interpretation of this phenomenon, now called '...

Many machine learning algorithms on quantum computers suffer from the dreaded "barren plateau" of unsolvability, where they run into dead ends on optimization problems. This challenge had been relatively unstudied--until...

Wearing masks, social distancing and frequent hand-washing have kept in-school COVID-19 transmission low, according to results of a pilot study in Missouri aimed at identifying ways to keep elementary and secondary schoo...

Analysis of data from the American Heart Association's COVID-19 CVD Registry of more than 20,000 U.S. adults hospitalized with COVID-19 through November 2020 found that, overall, COVID-19 patients had an increased risk o...

A new study compares the impact of COVID-19 on patients and hospital resources versus the impact of influenza.

Preserved DNA from animals that lived over 2400 years ago suggests that present-day llamas and alpacas are descended in part from an extinct population of camelids called guanacos

New images of Jupiter's polar auroras, captured by the Juno spacecraft, revealed the full cycle of intense and unusual polar light displays.

Laser ignition (LI) is a promising electrode-less alternative to electronic spark ignition of lean fuel/air mixtures, offering high thermal efficiency with low harmful emissions. One of the most widely adopted LI methods...