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Researchers at Penn Engineering have created a chip that outstrips the security and robustness of existing quantum communications hardware. Their technology communicates in "qudits," doubling the quantum information spac...

An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND - a controversial theory of gravity that disputes Newton and rejects the existence of dark matter.

Study reveals a link between diastolic blood pressure and an increased risk of neurotic personality traits. Controlling blood pressure can help to reduce anxiety, depression, and neuroticism.

An experimental gene therapy restored the night vision of two people with leber congenital amaurosis.

A new light source generates ultrashort infrared pulses at wavelengths around 12µm with previously unattained peak intensity and stability. First experiments in vibrational spectroscopy on water demonstrate the high pot...

A simulated version of Paris where universities and telecommunication hubs are connected by a quantum communication network suggests that existing technology is already nearing the ability to create functional "quantum c...

A new cancer therapy is a match made in heaven. On one side is CRISPR, the gene-editing technology that's taken genetic engineering by storm. The other is a therapy called CAR-T, which transforms normal immune cells into...

The performance of image-generating AIs drops when trained using images previously created by other AIs, which may create problems for them given the proliferation of these images

Portable magnetic resonance (MR) systems have become a hot research topic for low-field MR systems in recent years thanks to the research and development of high homogeneity multilayer Halbach magnets. However, due to th...

Meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on "leap seconds"--the little jumps occasionally added to clocks running on Coordinated Universal Time (U...

Infants as young as 14 months can contemplate several alternatives on their own if they have been exposed to an object that is not clearly recognizable and is open to interpretation.

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Results of a phase three clinical trial of a novel brain cancer vaccine, DCVax-L, that uses a patient's stem cells to target cancer cells extend survival by many months to years for glioblastoma patients.

Functional adrenal glands have been grown in the lab by coaxing a type of stem cell to develop in a certain way by constantly tweaking the mix of chemicals they are bathed in

Organs in the human body have complex networks of fluid-filled tubes and loops. They come in different shapes, and their three-dimensional structures are differently connected to each other, depending on the organ. Durin...

The first trial of the 'SharkGuard' technology reduced the bycatch of blue sharks and pelagic rays by as much as 91 per cent, but didn't impact the tuna that fishers were targeting

People who ate almonds lowered their energy intake by 300 kilojoules at their following meal. Almonds alter appetite-regulating hormones and help to reduce food intake.

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Having one or more retail outlets selling alcohol for off-premises consumption in a neighborhood was associated with a 13.5% increase in cases of child abuse and 10.5% more children being entered into the foster care sys...

Those who act with kindness often underestimate how much others appreciate their actions.

Russian scientists from University of Science and Technology MISIS and Bauman Moscow State Technical University were one of the first in the world to implement a two-qubit operation using superconducting fluxonium qubits...

A team of German and Spanish researchers from Valencia, Münster, Augsburg, Berlin and Munich have succeeded in controlling individual light quanta to an extremely high degree of precision. In Nature Communications, the ...