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Cincinnati Art Museum curators were surprised to find a hidden image of Buddha in a mirror stored away in the archives.

Herschel's discovery in the 18th century of 560 missing stars is the focus of new audio-visual work from photographic artist Lynda Laird

New research reveals exactly how inbred the Devils Hole pupfish is.

Findings provide a better understanding of how natural genetic variations impact brain development and give rise to the spectrum of autism-associated behaviors.

Study reveals mindfulness-based stress reduction methods proved to be as effective as antidepressants for relieving symptoms for those with anxiety disorders.

New York voters backed billions of dollars in climate-related spending in the US midterms, but voters in California and other states rejected other environmental policies

Researchers provide the most detailed map of neural connections between the hippocampus and the rest of the brain to date. The map may alter the way in which we think about human memory formation.

One reason why happiness can seem so elusive is that our current emotions and feelings can interfere with memories of our past well-being.

Chirality is the breaking of reflection and inversion symmetries. Simply put, it is when an object's mirror images cannot be superimposed over each other. A common example are your two hands--while mirror images of each ...

Watch debris from the sea bottom fly, as octopuses hurl sand and other projectiles at their neighbors in an Australian bay.

How the binary system formed is a mystery

With the global population set to reach 8 billion people next week, Robin Maynard argues that investment in family planning, gender equality and education would have a profound positive impact on the planet

From the pioneering days of IVF to modern gene editing, Siddhartha Mukherjee's ambitious book explores how far we have come in understanding the cell - and how far we still have to go

We are still struggling to account for consciousness. A new hypothesis by psychologist Nicholas Humphrey challenges the basis of the discussion and argues sentience isn't what we think

Drawing inspiration from the way ecologists measure biodiversity, a method to score an AI's diversity could help determine how biased a computer system is

About 30 per cent of tears in the anterior cruciate ligament that supports the knee heal within two years with strengthening exercises, challenging the common assumption that surgery is always needed

A first-of-its-kind experiment simulating the cosmos with ultracold potassium atoms suggests that in a curved, expanding universe pairs of particles pop up out of empty space

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a distant star exploding earlier than ever before, allowing astronomers to watch the first eight days of a star's violent death

Nine people with lower body paralysis improved in their ability to walk after receiving electrical stimulation to the spine, with researchers then mapping the neurons that seemed to have promoted this recovery

An implanted device allows a man to translate his brain signals into written words.

Watermelons are good for you, provide many health benefits and are packed with nutrients. They are also deliciously refreshing, low in calories and fat-free.

Using a new experimental method, physicists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg investigated the resonant two-photon ionization of helium with improved spectral resolution and angular resoluti...