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A decade-long survey of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has uncovered over a dozen new species of shrew

Brain organoid study reveals multiple changes in brain cells during early embryonic development may contribute to schizophrenia later in life.

Findings reveal a common Parkinson's disease genetic mutation drives mislocalization of iron in activated microglia.

Core neurons in the lateral parabrachial nucleus project to the amygdala, an area of the brain associated with fear and emotional processing of pain. Neurons in the shell project to the pre-Bötzinger complex, a region t...

The shots should still help prevent severe disease.

A virtual rollercoaster ride in combination with EEG helped researchers determine how emotions are processed in the brain.

Study reveals how the brain is able to focus its attention on a single speaker in a crowded, noisy environment.

The northern lights appear in the sky when charged particles from the sun slam into molecules in the atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of colorful lights.

The world is fast running out of time to act to limit hospitalisations and deaths from omicron, with England having just a week or two left to implement policies that will have a substantial impact

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have developed an effective computational method to simulate the crazy-quilt movement of free electrons during experimental efforts...

An infant burial discovered in the Italian Alps sheds light on how the hunter-gatherers of Europe dealt with issues of personhood and status 10,000 years ago.

With land in virtual worlds selling for millions of dollars, NFTs flooding the internet, and Meta (formerly Facebook) employees saying the word “metaverse” over 80 times during a keynote presentation last month, it s...

Collisions with high-speed space rocks in Venus's early history could have melted most of the planet's mantle and driven any water into the atmosphere

Forests have a localised cooling effect, and in tropical areas where deforestation has occurred, outdoor workers are now feeling the heat more

Police in Jerusalem seized a hoard of stolen antiquities that date to a 1,900-year-old Jewish rebellion against the Romans.

To create efficient energy storage solutions and actuators, engineers need materials with a high dielectric constant. The dielectric constant is essentially the ratio of a substance's permittivity (i.e., its ability to s...

Superconducting materials show zero electrical resistance at low temperatures, which allows them to conduct "supercurrents" without dissipation. Recently, a group of scientists led by Dr. Kazumasa Iida from Nagoya Univer...

Omicron has become a global threat to public health thanks to a particularly dangerous set of mutations, but where did it come from?

A new study of swarming bacteria has created microscope images that resemble Vincent van Gogh's paintings.

A tardigrade cooled to near absolute zero and placed in a state of quantum entanglement survived its ordeal

Conspiracy theories that have taken hold range from a faked moon landing to Barack Obama's birthplace to chemtrails.