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A new study indicates holes the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, potential scaling up of qubits to a mini-quantum computer.

Want to improve your chances of making electricity from fusion? Look no further than the cleaners under your kitchen sink.

Cysteine leukotriene receptor 2 appears to be a key player in chronic itch, a new study reports.

Two key metrics of signal detection theory, perceptual certainty and response bias, correlate with changes in cognitive fatigue.

Researchers identify three clinical COVID-19 phenotypes, reflecting patient populations with different comorbidities, complications and clinical outcomes.

Researchers have identified nine potential new COVID-19 treatments, including three that are already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating other diseases. The team screened thousands of existing ...

A new whole-genome sequencing study has revealed thirteen novel genes associated with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers also found a new link between Alzheimer's and synaptic function.

The team reached the USS Johnston, a U.S. Navy destroyer that sank on Oct. 25, 1944 after an intense battle with the Japanese during World War II.

Researchers report results of a COVID-19 mask study showing which materials had the greatest filtration efficiency. The findings underscore the critical importance of layering and universal mask wearing to protect people...

Understanding what drives food choices can help high-volume food service operations like universities reduce waste, according to a new study.

Researchers found that the chemical inhibitor K777 reduces the coronavirus' ability to infect cell lines by blocking human enzyme cathepsin L; clinical trials are underway.

At least 90 mysterious blobs of underwater jelly have been sighted near Norway and the Mediterranean Sea, and researchers finally know what they are.

The scientists used a soundwave and a laser beam to measure the diamonds before they disintegrated.

The line between animals and machines was already getting blurry after a team of scientists and roboticists unveiled the first living robots last year. Now the same team has released version 2.0 of their so-called xenobo...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity posed for a selfie in front of a beautiful Martian rock outcrop called "Mont Mercou" after probing the area for clues about the Red Planet's past.

A team has developed a method that uses the camera on a person's smartphone or computer to take their pulse and breathing rate from a real-time video of their face.

An ultra-high-resolution simulation of a tiny slice of the universe -- a million times smaller than a proton -- has revealed the very first structures to ever exist.

A mysterious disease affecting young Californian black bears is causing them to become fearless when interacting with humans and is preventing them from developing properly.

A new genetic study finds connections between Indigenous South Americans and Indigenous people in Oceana.

Lions have contagious yawns, and they seem to use them to send signals to each other - an observation providing the first evidence that yawns can synchronise behaviour

By Allison Kubo Hutchison Synthetic diamond created using vapour deposition process. Steve Jurvetson, Apollo synthetic diamond, CC BY 2.0 In late 1940, the Debeers Diamond company started using the slogan "Diamonds are f...

Large-scale weather patterns and urban overheating make Sydney's inland suburbs up to 10°C warmer than coastal areas during extreme heat events