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The cosmic optical background (COB) is the visible light emitted by all sources outside of the Milky Way. This faint glow of light, which can only be observed using very precise and sophisticated telescopes, could help a...

Studying Titan's clouds will help scientists understand why Saturn's largest moon is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere.

What lurks at the center of a black hole? Studying the space-time ripples from black hole collisions could reveal an answer.

Researchers have identified a correlation between control energy consumption and glucose metabolism in temporal lobe epilepsy. The mechanism provides a biological basis for the application of network control theory in th...

A newly discovered cell-specific molecular network associated with ASD could lay the groundwork for finding an effective treatment for those with autism.

Quantum technologies are expected to become part of our everyday lives in the coming decades. Researchers in the emerging area of quantum information science (QIS) are rapidly developing many of these technologies, inclu...

A drone equipped with lights and speakers can deter bats from wind farms to protect them from potentially deadly turbine blades

Deep brain stimulation at the intersection of two fiber bundles linked to memory formation appears to alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed--but it is not possible to translate that into a temperature. Only when dealing with random velocity distributions of many particles does a...

Study reveals people with treatment-resistant depression have a 23% higher risk of death than those without the condition.

A female Tasmanian tiger that died in 1936, not a male named Benjamin, was actually the last surviving member of this extinct species. The female's remains had been hidden in museum storage.

Researchers have identified four genes, ESR1, DCC, DRD2, and TRAF3, that are associated with an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions.

Complement C3, a chemically modified form of an inflammatory immune protein, was more abundant in post mortem brain tissue of women who died from Alzheimer's disease than in males.

Reaching an agreement will be even harder than it was over climate change

Alzheimer's disease onset may be accelerated by viruses that inflame and disrupt signals from the olfactory system to the hippocampus, a new study reports.

A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, is proposed. This has never been done before and success would help answer many fundamental questions in physi...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Pan Jianwei and Prof. Zhao Bo from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), used adiabatic magneto-association to create an...

Why more research into the safety of menstrual products is needed

They have a great diversity of forms, and are well equipped with nerves and erectile tissue

From the most babies born to one mother to the shortest baby brought to term, these are some of the most notable record-breaking pregnancies.

Fancy a posh meal without the climate hangover? Work out what luxury really means and you can create gourmet, guilt-free dining

It is hard not to feel despondent about what we have lost from the natural world, but as Wild Wild Life columnist Penny Sarchet looks back at 2022, she finds some reasons for hope