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A global drop in oxygen levels about 550 million years ago led to Earth's first known mass extinction, new evidence suggests.

Study reveals the mechanism of the nucleus accumbens for mediating reward and aversion.

Aerobic exercise reduces the risk of metastatic cancer by elevating glucose consumption.

A new brain-machine interface is the most accurate to date at predicting a person's internal monologue. The technology could be used to assist those with disorders affecting speech to effectively communicate.

Children have a rapid boost of GABA during visual learning tasks that continue after the training ends. In adults, GABA levels remain consistent. Findings suggest children's brains respond to training in a way that allow...

A newly developed brain atlas could help with the study and diagnosis of mental health and neurodegenerative disorders by correlating brain networks with underlying anatomical structures.

A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory has developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells. Under...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the interior of the chamber ...

Crop circles are really no mystery. These expansive forms of landscape art are made by people.

Seals can distinguish between and react differently to changes in rhythm. The findings shed new light on musicality.

The Withings Body smart scale is an intuitive and effective appliance that sends basic info via Wi-Fi.

NASA engineers have declared the rocket fit to fly after Hurricane Nicole

The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous communities could be key to reversing the trend

In 2019, the International System of Units (SI) was redefined in terms of constants that relate to the natural world. This assures the future stability of the SI and opens the opportunity for the use of new technologies,...

Teenagers who come from less financially secure backgrounds than their friends are more likely to experience lower self-esteem and are at higher risk of being bullied. Additionally, both those who are poorer and those wh...

How to identify your second cousin, first cousin once removed and other distant relatives.

Children and teenagers who were exposed to pre-eclampsia in the uterus may be a third more likely to have a stroke or develop coronary artery disease, but the overall risk remains low

The bacteria that cause leprosy have been found to reprogram liver cells in armadillos and make the organ regrow, offering clues that could lead to new treatments

A group of scientists from Aalto University, IQM Quantum Computers, and VTT Technical Research Center have discovered a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the accuracy of quantum computations. The team ha...

Sea-monkeys is the marketing term used for a hybrid breed of brine shrimp sold in packets of dust in aquarium shops.

What was science fiction is now scientific reality: with a series of targeted electrical zaps to the spinal cord, nine paralyzed people immediately walked again with help from a robot. Five months later, half of the part...

A team of researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, has found evidence of ions behaving differently than expected in their fusion reactions.