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When raised in captivity, musk ducks learn to copy the sounds of human life around them, which shows that they are what's known as vocal language learners like parrots and humans

Findings could advance the development of deep learning networks based on real neurons that will enable them to perform more complex and more efficient learning processes.

White matter functional connectivity distributions may contribute to working memory and processing speed impairments in schizophrenia.

Men fed a plant-based diet farted seven times more per day and had bigger stools than when they were on a Western diet because their "good" bacteria flourished

The fate of plans for the UK's first deep coal mine in 30 years will be fiercely debated at a public inquiry starting tomorrow, in what is expected to be a landmark test case of what new fossil fuel projects should be al...

One of the most extreme abortion laws in the US went into effect on 1 September in Texas. What does it say, and could this type of law be passed in other US states?

A genomic analysis of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking has found that a majority of these tumors arise from the accumulation of mutations caused by natural processes in the body. This study describes thre...

After examining the blood samples from nearly 200 COVID-19 patients, researchers have uncovered underlying metabolic changes that regulate how immune cells react to the disease. These changes are associated with disease ...

Researchers found that a tool commonly used in research for evaluating a person's genetic risk for a disease, called a polygenic risk score, was no better at predicting the outcome of a schizophrenia patient's disease ov...

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Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Rutgers University have used simple concepts from granular physics to explain the curious diamond shapes of two "near Earth" ...

A research team led by the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba has reviewed the hydrodynamics literature related to swimming. They identified certain biomechanical aspects, including the rel...

Black holes are regions of space-time with huge amounts of gravity. Scientists originally thought that nothing could escape the boundaries of these massive objects, including light.

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have systematically measured the knockout cross sections of neutron-rich carbon isotopes at the inte...

Of all the colors we can see in nature, blue is one of the rarest.

The epic storm that swept across the eastern United States this week hit New Jersey so hard that satellites saw the damage from space.

Astronomers may have captured the best view yet of matter colliding with the surface of a young star, findings that may shed light on what the sun looked like in its youth.

A catastrophic solar storm could take huge sections of the Earth offline for weeks or months, a new research paper warns.

A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe--fundamentally changing from particle-like to fluid-like dynamics, t...