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Glacial melt caused by climate change is redistributing weight on the planet, leading to a shift in Earth's poles as far back as the 1990s.

Archaeologists have unearthed 110 ancient Egyptian tombs, many holding the remains of humans, including two babies inside pots, along the Nile Delta.

The VGLUT protein is more abundant in the dopamine neurons of female fruit flies, rodents, and humans than in males. The finding shed light on why females have greater resilience to age-related dopamine neuron loss and d...

Noradrenaline impairs immune response by inhibiting the movement of leukocytes to different tissue.

The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this in a chip-scale architecture is important for scalability, which am...

Researchers have succeeded in ultra-fast freezing proteins after a precisely defined period of time. They were able to follow structural changes on the microsecond time scale and with sub-nanometer precision. Owing to it...

Netflix's The Mitchells vs The Machines is laugh-out-loud funny animation as a hapless family end up as humanity's only hope against the machine

Researchers propose a new theory of what happens in the brain when we experience familiar seeming visual stimuli. The theory, dubbed sensory referenced suppression, suggests the brain understands different levels of acti...

The more exposure a child has to nitrogen oxide, the higher the risk of them developing mental health disorders at age eighteen.

In animal studies, 'smart' immune cells genetically engineered to attack tumours in new way eradicated brain, ovarian and asbestos-related tumours where normal immune cells failed

Broadcasting sound at oncoming birds can alert them to buildings or wind turbines, making them take a wider path around the structure and lowering their risk of collision

Pumpkin toadlets are poisonous frogs small enough to fit on a thumbnail, and researchers have uncovered a new species of these neon orange frogs in Brazil

The woman was eating wolf herring when she experienced "excruciating pain over the throat."

Adverse environmental exposures during pregnancy -- including those that occur before pregnancy is recognized -- have a sizable effect on risk for psychiatric symptoms in childhood. Researchers are working to discover, d...

Scientists are developing a completely new 'brain stress test' for evaluating the mental status of patients with Parkinson's disease, the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease worldwide. It involves awakening t...

Art on the blockchain, plus reducing transmission with a tin-foil hat and DIY product recommendation algorithms, in Feedback's weird weekly round-up

Recent experiments hint that there may be particles that we have yet to discover, but there could be a different explanation too, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

There are plans to return samples from Mars to check them for signs of life, but we should examine them before they reach our planet, says Paul Marks

The deep sea has a reputation for being more mysterious than the moon, but that's changing. A new podcast delves into the latest news from the depths

Naturally Brilliant Colour, an exhibition at London's Kew Gardens, showcases a technology called Pure Structural Colour that mimics some of the colours found in nature that are hardest to reproduce

The public spat between Facebook and Australia earlier this year presages a new effort to regulate big tech companies - but could that threaten the whole future of the web?

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