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A digital replica of Earth could help scientists better model the future of our planet and find solutions to problems wrought by climate change.

After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a record yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) from fusion reactions was achieved in the laboratory for the first time during an experiment at Lawrence Livermore Na...

In fruit flies, there is a second barrier in the brain where glial cells ensure a spatial separation for different functional compartments.

Recognising the "urgency of action" needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees is on the UK COP26 presidency's wish list for the crucial climate summit - but the list doesn't include any detail on when countries need ...

Interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one could have acted as a seed around which Earth grew

We perceive the thickness of liquid food based on logarithmic stimuli, in a similar way to which we perceive visual or auditory information.

Before soluble fibrinogen, a blood plasma protein, is converted into insoluble fibrin molecules that can toxically accumulate outside blood vessels in the brain, fibrinogen connects directly with neurons and can cause a ...

Researchers use a new model to project where the surge of mismanaged medical waste will end up--including beaches, seabeds, and the Arctic Ocean.

A new study hints at when and how Earth's first continents appeared.

Researchers have detected the deepest earthquake ever, 467 miles below the Earth's surface.

New research using an Intestine Chip has recreated viral infection of the human gut in vitro using a coronavirus called NL63, which causes the common cold and is also associated with GI symptoms.

Combining the immunotherapy agent durvalumab with the chemotherapy agents pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin may provide a new treatment option for patients who have inoperable pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the ...

New research reveals the cellular mechanism behind why the elderly, as well as those with certain overlapping diseases, are at risk of infection and death from the virus -- and how this mechanism can potentially be used ...

The rates of death and health burdens associated with air pollution are borne unequally and inequitably by people of color and those with lower household income and educational attainment in Washington, D.C., according t...

A forgotten idea of Albert Einstein's might be the saviour of cosmology, plus the great man's (vain) quest to undermine quantum weirdness and the question of why the universe looks "just right" for our existence

All known atomic nuclei and therefore almost all visible matter consists of protons and neutrons, yet many of the properties of these omnipresent natural building blocks remain unknown. As an uncharged particle, the neut...

Quantum entanglement occurs when two particles appear to communicate without a physical connection, a phenomenon Albert Einstein famously called "spooky action at a distance." Nearly 90 years later, a team led by the U.S...

Planckian metals have the potential to power high-temperature superconductors, quantum computers and a host of other next-generation technologies. However, these "strange" metals--in which electrical resistance increases...

By watering bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) with a solution that contains conjugated oligomers, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Sweden, have shown that the roots of the plant...

During the initial COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, a lot of people suddenly became more sedentary as they adhered to stay-at-home orders or opted to self-isolate. Recently published research found people who continued t...

Earth observation satellites have detected leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the US, Algeria, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

The Oral B Genius X is a powerful, Bluetooth-enabled electric toothbrush that allows users to get the most out of every brushing session.