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Detecting DNA in air samples could make it much easier to monitor biodiversity around the world and also help in other fields such as atmospheric science

Listeners rely on a number of acoustic features to make the distinction between drum music and drum "speech".

College students with higher levels of anxiety and depression were more likely to have experienced childhood adversity than their peers, researchers found.

Microglia do not only remove damaged materials following a seizure, they also appear to heal damaged neurons.

People who are financially more comfortable during mid-life tend to live longer, researchers say.

Microbes isolated from the stomachs of termites can decontaminate timber that's been treated with toxic preservatives, enabling it to be converted into biofuels more easily

VNTR2-1, a recently identified region of DNA, appears to drive the activity of the telomerase gene. The telomerase gene has previously been found to prevent aging in specific cells.

Facial expression analysis reveals bronze medalists were more likely to smile on the podium than silver medalists, while gold medalists were displayed the happiest facial expressions.

A novel helmet that generates a noninvasive oscillating magnetic field was able to reduce tumor mass by 31% in a glioblastoma brain cancer patient.

A new study reveals the role the locus coeruleus plays in learning, behavior, and mental health.

It's sometimes been assumed that we experience brief periods without vision every time we shift our focus from one point to another - but now it turns out the assumption is wrong

Recently, a research group led by Prof. Yuan Kaijun and Prof. Yang Xueming from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed strong isotope effects in photodissociation of t...

NASA has released striking satellite images of wildfire smoke clouds covering vast swaths of the U.S., from the West Coast all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

When experiencing the ups and downs of a virtual roller coaster ride, people who get migraine headaches reported more dizziness and motion sickness than people who do not get migraines, according to a new study.

There are many reasons that an intranasal vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus would be helpful in the fight against COVID-19 infections, immunologists write in a new article.

People infected with the delta variant of the novel coronavirus may be carrying more than a thousand times more virus particles, according to an early new study.

Electromagnetic (EM) waves in the terahertz (THz) regime contribute to important applications in communications, security imaging, and bio- and chemical sensing. Such wide applicability has resulted in significant techno...

Plans for thorium reactors have been around since the 1940s, but Chinese scientists believe they are finally close to creating a working prototype.

In a wealth and longevity study to incorporate siblings and twin pair data, researchers analyzed the midlife net worth of adults (mean age 46.7 years) and their mortality rates 24 years later. They discovered those with ...

New research by an Executive PhD Research student at the Business School (formerly Cass) outlines how elderly patients with neurological conditions are significantly more likely to develop delirium shortly after they are...

Digital stopwatches can make rounding errors of up to 0.11 seconds, which could be enough to change the winner of close races. Although the devices record time extremely accurately internally, they often make errors when...

Red palm weevils are invasive insects known for damaging palm trees - affecting date, coconut and palm oil industries - but a bit of clove or thyme oil reduced the amount of palm stems they ate by 35 per cent