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The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science."

Children of mothers who experience more negative moods as a result of postpartum depression during the first two months of their child's life have less mature processing of speech sounds at the age of six months.

Shorter daylight hours increase opioid receptor signaling in the brown fat of animals.

Megadroughts are exceptionally severe, long-lasting or widespread relative to normally occurring dry stretches

Study reveals those with borderline personality disorder and their carers face stigma and discrimination by mental health service providers following suicide attempts and episodes of self-harm.

Whereas the shortest way between two points is a straight connection, it might not be the most efficient path to follow. Complex currents often affect the motion of microswimmers and make it difficult for them to reach t...

Age itself plays a bigger role than genetics in gene expression and susceptibility to specific diseases as we age.

A new study reveals vegetarians are two times more likely to suffer from depression than those who eat meat. While nutrition plays a role in depressive symptoms, researchers say social factors and upset over the treatmen...

Brain organoids are helping researchers map the molecular, genetic, and structural changes that occur during brain development.

An analysis of different outdoor playing surfaces suggests that falls on artificial turf may pose a greater concussion risk than natural grass

The interaction of light with matter lies at the heart of processes in nature and in society. For example, in a solar cell, light is converted to an electrical current, but the efficiency of this conversion process can b...

Meta's AudioGen text-to-audio artificial intelligence model could create sound for video games, film soundtracks or music production

Smoking and our body mass index - whether underweight, overweight or obese - may be involved in the onset of everything from heart failure and hernias to sleep apnoea and nail disorders

Newly released video shows a gang of killer whales in South Africa attack and slaughter a great white shark.

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history. The point of this text is not to predict how many people will ever live. What I learned from writing this post is that ou...

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Optics, the study of light, is one of the oldest fields in physics and has never ceased to surprise researchers. Although the classical description of light as a wave phenomenon is rarely questioned, the physical origins...

Jazz must swing--jazz musicians agree on that. However, even 100 years after the beginnings of jazz, it is still unclear what exactly constitutes the swing feel. With a sophisticated experiment and data analyses on more ...

Physicists at EPFL have developed a formulation to solve the longstanding problem of electron self-interaction when studying polarons--quasiparticles produced by electron-phonon interactions in materials. The work can le...

Is collagen good for skin -- and is it better to ingest collagen through food or supplements? We've got the lowdown

Inside All About History 122: Discover what Tutankhamun, boy king of Egypt, was really like.

Official statistics show that England's 10-day heatwave in August 2022 led to more excess deaths than the shorter but record-breaking temperature spike in July, highlighting the risks of extended periods of heat