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Fossils found in France are from a previously unknown species of amphibian that belonged to a group of reptiles with mammal-like traits.

Engineers at Caltech have developed a switch--one of the most fundamental components of computing--using optical, rather than electronic, components. The development could aid efforts to achieve ultrafast all-optical sig...

Analysis of fossilized teeth that were rediscovered in museum archives in Bulgaria has revealed a new species of ancient panda that was likely the last of its kind in Europe.

A newly proposed learning method for those on the autism spectrum accelerates the learning process and can help to improve visual perception.

Those with hereditary hemochromatosis who have two copies of the gene mutation that cause the disorder have an increased risk of developing movement disorders including Parkinson's disease.

An analysis of fossils suggests changes in the shape of the braincase during human evolution were linked to alterations in the face, rather than changes in the brain itself

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are developing a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence device for neutron scattering called Hyperspectral Computed Tomography, or HyperCT. The fully automated, AI-driven plat...

Holes in the sun can beam out solar material at 500 miles per second.

Atoms are notoriously difficult to control. They zigzag like fireflies, tunnel out of the strongest containers and jitter even at temperatures near absolute zero.

Galaxies in the distant universe are expected to have fewer heavy elements than nearby ones, but the James Webb Space Telescope has found a surprising one with almost none at all

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One of the cornerstones of the implementation of quantum technology is the creation and manipulation of the shape of external fields that can optimize the performance of quantum devices. Known as quantum optimal control,...

Until 2018, the SI unit of mass, the kilogram, was defined as the mass of a real object: the International Prototype Kilogram, kept in a secure facility in the outskirts of Paris. On November 16, 2018, the kilogram was g...

Pieces of plastic in the sea, chlorophyll content in bodies of water, the degree of drought in fields--since April 2022, the German environmental satellite EnMAP has been orbiting our Earth and will be collecting myriad ...

Scientists analyzed ancient herpes DNA found in human teeth.

On 1 August, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) announced that a new fusion simulation code was developed to project and analyze the Toroidal-Alfvén-Eigenmode (TAE). In TAE, instabilities occur in the course of ...

The new record happened by accident.

Researchers have been trying to build artificial synapses for years in the hope of getting close to the unrivaled computational performance of the human brain. A new approach has now managed to design ones that are 1,000...

A collaboration led by scientists at Nagoya University in Japan has investigated the nature of dark matter surrounding galaxies seen as they were 12 billion years ago, billions of years further back in time than ever bef...

Anorexia nervosa is a complex and serious mental illness involving an obsession with food and weight

A special bonding state between atoms has been created in the laboratory for the first time: With a laser beam, atoms can be polarized so that they are positively charged on one side and negatively charged on the other. ...