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Study finds passively observing virtual reality games increases cybersickness, while actively participating in VR games diminishes feelings of motion sickness associated with virtual reality.

Study explores how a mouse brain understands sensory information, specifically the perception of touch.

Researchers have discovered a link between anxiety behaviors and PTSD to an increase in myelin in the brain's gray matter.

Over a five-week period in the fall of 2021, three people died of rabies after contact with bats, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

A site in Australia that holds thousands of astonishingly well-preserved fossils has been kept a closely guarded secret among paleontologists for the past three years.

Alan Gosling, 79, is reportedly feeling "fine but very lonely."

A suite of plant and animal fossils from a site in New South Wales date back about 16 million years to a time when the region was blanketed in lush rainforests

Artificial intelligence's lack of transparency is leading many to fear the technology and others to elevate it to a mysterious god-like figure, but we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is use...

In this comprehensive guide to the best treadmills of 2022, we look at the most popular running machines available for at-home use.

The rate at which methane concentrations are rising is concerning researchers, with 2020 marking the biggest annual jump since 1983.

An international team of scientists, headed up by Paderborn physicist Professor Klaus Jöns, has compiled a comprehensive overview of the potential, global outlook, background and frontiers of integrated photonics. The p...

The newly discovered Angustopila psammion is the smallest snail ever seen on land, though there are smaller snails in the sea

The UK government is talking to the energy industry to find ways to mitigate a huge rise in energy bills that is set to hit consumers in April

The invisibility cloak is an artifact that can make the wearer transparent, rendering it undetectable to observers outside. Perhaps, one of the most well-known examples is the invisibility cloak possessed by Harry Potter...

When elderly people stay active, their brains have more of a class of proteins that enhances the connections between neurons to maintain healthy cognition, a new study has found.

For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A millio...

Astronomers have discovered a cloud of atomic hydrogen more than 3,900 light-years long, known as "Maggie," in the Milky Way.

Dien Nguyen and Jennifer Rittenhouse West study two tiny but critically important particles to learn more about our universe. These two particles, neutrons and protons, reside at the center of atoms and make up nearly al...

Scientists have shown in both anxious rats and military veterans with PTSD that acute stress is associated with increased myelination of axons in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotions. These areas in the...

Interventions aimed at promoting physical activity in people with asthma could improve their symptoms and quality of life -- according to new research. Researchers looked at whether interventions such as aerobic and stre...

A study used computer models to investigate how cities and climate change influenced the destructive and deadly rainstorm that struck the Rotterdam-Brussels-Cologne metropolitan region on July 14, 2021. The study found t...

A fiery new photograph of the Flame Nebula depicts the emissions from brand-new stars, burning through space like cosmic wildfires.