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It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that's what happened in UMD's Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable looking building on the n...

A newly developed machine learning model can predict the words a person is about to speak based on their neural activity recorded by a minimally invasive neuroprosthetic device.

Spatially organized recruitment of neural activity across the motor cortex informs details of planned movements.

In a new field trial, researchers show that a real-time coherent transceiver prototype can be used for continuous sensing over a 524-km live network aerial fiber wound around high-voltage power cables suspended from outd...

Researchers urge governments to use public procurement of plant-based proteins to bring about cascading changes that help tackle climate change

Lasers are intense beams of colored light. Depending on their color and other properties, they can scan your groceries, cut through metal, eradicate tumors, and even trigger nuclear fusion. But not every laser color is a...

Aerospace company ZeroAvia successfully tested using a hydrogen-electric engine to power one of the propellors in a 19-seat aircraft

A troubling strain of gonorrhea was identified for the first time in the U.S.

Astronomers detected a radio signal from deeper in space than ever before, using a cosmic trick first predicted by Einstein.

After weeks of intense rain and flooding, most of California's reservoirs are holding more water than usual for this time of year, but groundwater is still not replenished

Rangers in Australia stumbled upon a giant cane toad resembling a "football with legs"

Researchers have identified how two different populations of neurons in the striatum are affected differently in Huntington's disease. The neurodegeneration of one of these populations leads to motor defects while damage...

The best smart scales can provide a better insight into health and fitness, from body fat percentage to bone density.

Males with the BIN1 Alzheimer's genetic risk factor and poor vascular health showed steeper and more rapid declines in memory than females.

The stunning filaments and coils of light that make up the Southern Ring Nebula were shaped by as many as five stars all orbiting one another in a complex dance

The stunning filaments and coils of light that make up the Southern Ring Nebula were shaped by as many as five stars all orbiting one another in a complex dance

Physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally proven that an important theorem of statistical physics applies to so-called "Bose-Einstein condensates." Their results now make it possible to measure certain pro...

Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know. The researchers say they can better understand the state of the c...

Connectomics researchers aim to map and understand how individual neurons connect to each other to form functional networks.

Researchers have developed a new family of nano-scale capsules capable of carrying CRISPR gene editing tools to different organs of the body before harmlessly dissolving. The capsules were able to enter the brains of mic...

Experts weigh in on whether the newly approved Alzheimer's treatment lecanemab is worth taking.

A fabric made by welding aerogel pockets together with ultrasound mimics the make-up of a camel's hump to protect against fire as well as letting sweat escape