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Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida, and holds enough ice to raise sea levels over two feet. New research shows that the collapse of its ice shelf may be just a few years away.

University of Adelaide experts, who are part of the international community of researchers investigating the fundamental physical properties of atoms, may have come across a new paradigm for the way atomic nuclei are bui...

People suffering from vitamin B12 deficiency are 51% more likely to develop depression over a four-year period. However, as a person's age increased, the risk of depression decreased.

Cancer cells can lie dormant for years and then suddenly start spreading.

The COVID causing SARS-CoV-2 protein interacts with alpha-synuclein, speeding up the formation of amyloid plaques, a new study reports.

Ion channels in the nervous system are among the most important targets for insecticides. Understanding the structure of the channels is key for the identification of novel species-specific binding sites of agrochemicals...

Some samples of the synthetic marijuana were found to be contaminated with rat poison.

The percentage of obese children and teens jumped from 19% pre-pandemic to 22%, and that could spell bad news for children's cardiovascular systems both now and down the line.

With numerous recent studies demonstrating that antibiotics work as well as surgery for most uncomplicated appendicitis cases, the non-surgical approach can now be considered a routine option, according to a review artic...

Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows.

The number of cases of tick-borne illnesses (TBIs) reported annually to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has more than doubled over the past two decades in the United States. An expert panel has devel...

Recent satellite images captured by Landsat 8 show a rare windswept sea ice formation over water in Antarctica.

A highly unusual movement of light emitting particles in atomically-thin semiconductors was experimentally confirmed by scientists from the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat-Complexity and Topology in Quant...

A robot hand that has the lightness of touch to hold delicate objects and the strength to crush cans could one day be used as a prosthetic

A rock sample collected from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has been re-examined, and the results suggest the lunar surface might have cooled in just 20 million years

Losing particles can lead to positive, robust effects.

Researchers have shown, in a small clinical trial, that an immunotherapy harnessing pre-activated natural killer cells can help some children and young adults with recurrent AML and few other treatment options.

A new high-throughput platform screens for drug compounds that hit a target found in human and bat coronaviruses and could be used to develop future treatments.

Astronomers have observed Sagittarius A* - the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy - closer than ever before, and Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity still holds up

Sleep on it. That's the advice we've all heard when challenged with a seemingly impossible dilemma. A new study suggests it's not just folklore. When over 100 volunteers were given the chance to nap, if just for a few mi...

Two paddleboarders encountered a colossal sunfish in Laguna Beach, California.

Archaeologists have revealed the ornate appearance of a Viking heavy sword that is encased in dirt and rust using X-ray analysis.