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Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of mosquito larvae flinging their heads at prey in deadly hunting strikes.

A device that uses differences in temperature to levitate could keep small sensors floating indefinitely in the stratosphere, such as for monitoring the weather

Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are revealing the asteroid's history and may help us reconstruct the evolution of the solar system

A laser controlled by two cameras and a small computer running an AI model can be trained to target certain types of insect

Study identifies the synaptotagmin-3 (SYT3) protein as a key molecule that allows for synaptic transmission. The findings could help with the development of treatment for a range of neurological disorders including ASD a...

People who lost weight soon after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease had a more rapid decline in thinking skills compared to those who maintained their normal weight. Those who gained weight had a slower decline in...

A large class of problems in non-equilibrium statistical physics deal with driven dynamics of elastic interfaces in random media. Examples include stress-driven propagation of crack fronts in disordered solids, motion of...

People with Dark Triad personality traits are more likely to believe fake news, especially when doing so promotes their own selfish desires. Even when presented with scientific facts, those with dark triad personalities ...

In a highly competitive environment, Trinidadian killifish grow larger brains. This neuro-evolution allows for greater fitness and survival rates.

Researchers identified a group of neurons in the amygdala which are responsible for hedonic eating.

Researchers have developed a new way to use femtosecond laser pulses to fabricate the high-precision ultrathin mirrors required for high-performance X-ray telescopes. The technique could help improve the space-based X-ra...

Lee and Collier counties in Florida saw increases in flesh-eating bacterial infections after Hurricane Ian.

The four fundamental states of matter are solid, liquid, gas and plasma, but there others, such as Bose-Einstein condensates and time crystals, that are man-made.

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson's 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is so stuffed with ideas it will nee...

Large Hadron Collider has helped determine the distribution of masses that the Higgs boson can have, a measure known as its width

Splitting data into a spectrum of colour packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable

Wondering if dehumidifiers help with mold? We asked the experts and delved into the science

In the 15 months after the Woolsey fire in Los Angeles, mountain lions were more likely to cross busy roads, travel further and move around during the day, putting the already vulnerable group of cats at increased risk

If you're a professional programmer or a keen amateur then you need the right tools to get the job done - so we've rounded the best laptops for coding.

Australian researchers have engineered a quantum box for polaritons in a two-dimensional material, achieving large polariton densities and a partially "coherent" quantum state.

Recent Australian-led research has provided a world's first measurement of interactions between Fermi polarons in an atomically-thin 2D semiconductor, using ultrafast spectroscopy capable of probing complex quantum mater...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have managed for the first time to create a unidirectional device that significantly increases the quality of a special class of transmitted signals in opti...