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Study reveals how the brain relies on feedback from the body to regulate fear response. When a mouse's body freezes in response to fear, its heart rate slows, and this leads to attenuated insular cortex activity.

Researchers presented new insights for improving the health span by just regulating the activity of a protein. A research group has identified a single amino acid change in the tumor suppressor protein phosphatase and te...

The effect, called Pauli blocking, has been predicted for 30 years. Scientists just proved it for the first time.

Photographers worldwide snapped shots as Earth's shadow took a bite out of the moon.

When NASA launches the DART mission on Nov. 24, the spacecraft will embark on a months-long journey toward a distant asteroid target.

The best humidifiers not only keep the air clean, they also help prevent physical discomfort caused by dry indoor air.

Earth's outer shell is made of rocky rafts that dive beneath each other. The diving plates weaken, but do not break, according to a new study.

In a first small test, the brainwaves of people in a minimally conscious state changed in a characteristic way when given an anaesthetic, showing whether they were likely to recover

Antimatter is the opposite of normal matter. The electrical charge of sub-atomic antimatter particles is reversed relative to matter.

On Friday (Nov. 19), The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Moderna and Pfizer boosters for all adults, prior to the busy holiday season.

Although millions of people celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Dec. 25, most scholars agree that he wasn't born on that day, or even in the year 1 A.D.

Artificial intelligence can be used to scour the crowdsourced encyclopedia for contradictory information and flag it to human editors

Humans have only recently begun to think about using hydrogen as a source of energy, but bacteria in Antarctica have been doing it for a billion years. We studied 451 different kinds of bacteria from frozen soils in East...

The properties of a complex and exotic state of a quantum material can be predicted using a machine learning method created by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator. This advance could aid the development of future quant...

Deep-frying a turkey is a great way to get a delicious, moist meal for Thanksgiving. But this method of cooking can be a very dangerous undertaking.

Have you ever experimented with food dye? It can make cooking a lot more fun, and provides a great example of how two fluids can mix together well--or not much at all.

A new study has implicated several genes involved in a variety of bodily functions associated with the hypothalamus, a notoriously difficult-to-study region of the brain. The findings could help clinicians identify poten...

Identifying specific facial features that can be used to distinguish a child's face from an adult's may offer a useful tool for determining whether children are depicted in indecent images of children, according to new r...

The newfound hydrothermal vents are located off the coast of La Paz, Mexico.

A project called ConstitutionDAO tried to use the technology behind cryptocurrencies to buy one of the extremely rare surviving original copies of the US constitution

Biologists have struggled to study rare and transient muscle cells involved in the process, but engineers have lifted the curtain on these elusive dynamics with the launch of scMuscle, one of the largest single-cell data...

New research provides evidence that host immunity drives evolution of the dengue virus. The research analyzes two decades of genetic variation from Thailand alongside population-level measures of infection and immunity.