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In a recent publication in the journal Advanced Materials, a team of physicists and chemists from TU Dresden presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light...

Neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus coordinate to adapt to different lengths of daylight, changing at cellular and network levels. The neurons changed in mix and expression of dopamine, altering brain activity and sub...

Plant your paws on the super grippy Yogi Bare Wild Paws Natural Rubber Extreme Grip yoga mat - it can handle the heat

Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) may be a useful tool in enhancing learning rates in those with limited learning capabilities.

La Nina and climate change mix to create a spate of extreme weather in 2022

The rocket has been plagued by technical problems since its wet dress rehearsal in April.

Franciscan monk Paolo Benanti is the brains behind the Rome Call, a pact aimed at making sure artificial intelligence is developed with ethics in mind. He tells us why religions should be part of that conversation.

Squeaky, cloudy or spherical--electron orbitals show where and how electrons move around atomic nuclei and molecules. In modern chemistry and physics, they have proven to be a useful model for quantum mechanical descript...

The blue light that smartphone and laptop screens give off may not affect your sleep if you only get a small dose of it

About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into savannah, says a report on its status

Lab tests suggest that Legionella bacteria are involved in an 11-person outbreak of unexplained pneumonia cases at a private medical clinic in Tucumán

Hurricanes often have surprisingly common human names that don't sound very threatening. But where do these names come from?

Housing the world's rapidly-growing population will require massive urban expansion and lots of concrete and steel, but these materials have a huge carbon footprint. A shift to building cities out of wood could avoid mor...

Microcombs have widely differing application areas--they can help us discover planets outside our solar system as well as track diseases in our bodies. New research results at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, n...

Banning the addition of artificial trans fats to food in 2003 is thought to have saved 1200 lives in Denmark between 1991 and 2007

An implant embedded in Australian animals that releases lethal poison when feral cats eat them could stop species being driven to extinction by cat predation

It depends on how you define monogamy.

It's commonly said that walking will help to bring on labor. While it's no guarantee as it doesn't induce labor contractions, walking helps the cervix prepare for the birth.

If a solar storm as big as the Carrington Event struck today, it could lead to years long power outages.

Solar storms can mess with Earth, but can they kick up a tsunami?