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The bones of 2-metre-long tetrapod Whatcheeria reveal that it had an early growth spurt - a trait that was thought to have evolved later

The fossil of a 525-million-year-old tiny sea creature with a preserved nervous system may solve a century-long debate about how the brains of arthropods evolved.

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Researchers discovered a structure within the octopus nervous system by which the intramuscular nerve cords, which help the cephalopod to sense its arm movements, connect arms on the opposite side of the animal.

Excess fat from a mother's high-fat diet triggers immune cells to over-consume serotonin in the brains of developing males, leading to depression-like behaviors in the offspring.

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The financial circumstances a child experiences impact their well-being between the ages of 41 and 65.

UCLA researchers and their colleagues have discovered a new physics principle governing how heat transfers through materials, and the finding contradicts the conventional wisdom that heat always moves faster as pressure ...

Working memory stores different types of information in flexible codes which provide optimal outcomes for all possible courses of action.

Newborn twins grew from embryos that had been frozen for 30 years.

Caffeine supplementation reduces sprint time in a 100-meter dash, a new study reports.

Researchers have figured out how the Amami spiny rat lost its Y chromosome, and some believe the same fate may be in store for humans

The minerals were found inside a slice of the El Ali meteorite, which landed in Somalia in 2020.

Men with depression are 33% less likely to have children, and depressed women are 15% less likely to have children than their peers who do not suffer from depression. Additionally, women are more likely to suffer symptom...

Augmenting exposure therapy with ten minutes of aerobic exercise reduces PTSD symptom severity for up to six months after a nine-week course of treatment ends.

In the information era, photons and electrons are the main carriers of information transmission. Different from Moore's law in microelectronics, the density of integrated photonic devices is mainly limited by the wavelen...

Optical phase modulators are key components in optical communication, sensing, and signal processing systems. All-optical modulators, which modulate the phase or intensity of a light signal by a control light beam, have ...

Fragments of temperate rainforest grow in parts of England, Wales and Scotland, and with the right action we could help them thrive

The mysterious changes in phases of matter--from solid to liquid and back again--have fascinated Eun-Ah Kim since she was in lower elementary school in South Korea. Without cold drinking water readily available, on hot d...

Researchers affiliated with the Q-NEXT quantum research center show how to create quantum-entangled networks of atomic clocks and accelerometers--and they demonstrate the setup's superior, high-precision performance.

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