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The Surface Laptop 4 is a lightweight machine with a beautiful design that packs a performance punch, but has shortfalls like a lack of ports.

Breast density notifications aim to educate women about the risks of high breast density, defined as having more fibroglandular tissue than fatty tissue, as visualized on a mammogram. Prompted by activists whose own brea...

An experiment that could confirm the fifth state of matter in the universe--and change physics as we know it--has been published in a new paper from the University of Portsmouth.

Genes linked to obesity, energy metabolism, and appetite are also responsible for growth regulation in children, a new study reports.

A new study aims to map the brain from the onset of Alzheimer's disease through the different progressive stages via neuroimaging data to identify novel biomarkers associated with the disease at different stages.

Intranasal delivery of biologically active lipid messengers halts memory loss and neurodegeneration in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

The first people who migrated to the Americas from Asia may have had to take a circuitous coastal route, as direct passage overland may have been blocked by a massive wall of ice.

Whether it's photovoltaics or fusion, sooner or later, human civilization must turn to renewable energies. This is deemed inevitable, considering the ever-growing energy demands of humanity and the finite nature of fossi...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient sacred pool in Sicily.

A research team has discovered that drugs used to treat malaria are also effective at treating a pulmonary disease similar to tuberculosis.

New research shows large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Ethiopia's Omo River region could threaten water resources downstream to the local farmers and Indigenous populations living along the Omo -- just one example o...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has used a new data-driven approach to learn more about persons with Type 1 diabetes, who account for about 5-10% of all diabetes diagnoses. The team gathered its information thro...

Fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field that repeat every seven years can be used to probe the inner workings of our planet

The quantum state of a black hole's gravitational field may hold clues as to what is beyond the event horizon.

The 737-800 is an earlier model than the later 737 Max, which is the subject of a recent Netflix documentary.

The results of this collaborative project overturn some conventional wisdom about how the DNA repair process works.

Researchers are studying new ways to treat seasonal or intermittent asthma.

It's not easy to be sure that drugs and supplements with twisted -- or chiral -- structures are turning in the correct direction. Now, twirling infrared light can probe both the structures of molecular crystals and their...

A new computational approach successfully combines data from parallel gene-expression profiling methods to create spatial maps of a given tissue at single-cell resolution. The resulting maps can provide unique biological...

Research has revealed a key mechanism which increases tolerance to drugs amongst microbial communities. The findings could help the development of more effective antifungal treatments.

When something goes wrong during DNA replication, cells call their own version of 911 to pause the process and fix the problem -- a failsafe that is critical to maintaining health and staving off disease. Now, scientists...

In Central and South America, predatory blood-sucking bugs transmit the causative agent of the widely prevalent Chagas disease. As the disease can induce severe symptoms and to date there is no vaccine against the Trypan...