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Optogentic stimulation has the potential to cultivate resilience to epileptic seizures in animal models, researchers report.

You can watch a nearly mile-wide asteroid make its closest Earth approach for the next 200 years today. Here's how.

Researchers report children with speech-language disorders or developmental language disorders have greater difficulty in regulating their emotions. The study also found the way in which parents manage their emotions has...

Scientists are now one step closer to better understanding how to live in a "quantum" world--and not just from watching the character "Ant-Man" in the Marvel movie franchise.

Quantum information breaks the rules of classical information in a way that could allow us to answer questions that a classical computer cannot. Imagine mailing a letter. You, as the person sending the letter, know what ...

Stress can be a precursor to other mental health disorders including depression and anxiety, as well as a factor for premature aging. Researchers discuss stress management techniques that can build resilience to stressor...

A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water's surface. Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, a...

Changes in the strength of circadian rhythms, the average amount of activity during nighttime rest, and the amount of fragmented sleep a woman experienced during the later stages of pregnancy or following birth were stro...

If you've had omicron, should you get a booster, and if so, how long should you wait after the infection has passed?

A species of tarantula seems to live exclusively inside hollow bamboo stems, which no other tarantula is known to do

Bacteria-killing viruses can be used to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and the approach has been tried in more than 100 people in Belgium since a 2019 change in regulations

Trailing-edge noise is the dominant source of sound from aeronautical and turbine engines like those in airplanes, drones, and wind turbines. Suppressing this noise pollution is a major environmental goal for some urban ...

Most quantum computers are based on superconductors or trapped ions, but an alternative approach using ordinary atoms may have advantages

Gene therapy is a lot like landing a Mars rover. Hear me out. The cargo--a rover or gene editing tools--is stuffed inside a highly technical protective ship and shot into a vast, complex space targeting its destination, ...

During deep sleep, the presence of an unfamiliar voice elicits more K-complexes, a type of brain wave linked to sensory perturbances during sleep, compared to the sound of a familiar voice.

Sperm can't claim all the credit for their strong swimming. Carpets of tiny hairs lining the inside of the fallopian tubes give them an extra boost, propelling them upwards.

Recent advances in brain imaging techniques facilitate accurate, high-resolution observations of the brain and its functions. For example, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a widely used noninvasive imagin...

New aerial photos show a blanket of dust and ash covering the Pacific nation of Tonga following a massive underwater volcanic eruption.

University of Surrey researchers have developed a single-step procedure to put single-crystal silicon under more strain than has been achieved before. The discovery, which has a patent pending, could be crucial to the fu...

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Researchers have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may cause fetal inflammation even in the absence of placental infection.