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A soft symphony of sounds eminates from the soil within a forest and the more thriving the ecosystem, the greater the diversity of noise

The "lucky girl syndrome" trend may be another foray into the realm of magical thinking.

People with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have abnormally low levels of specific health-promoting gut bacterial species than those without the disorders.

An injectable interferon drug significantly reduced the risk that people with COVID-19 would be hospitalized with the disease.

Findings of a new study suggest more research needs to be done to identify the major factors contributing to the rate of cognitive decline associated with aging.

The University of Tennessee's physicists have led a scientific team that found silicon--a mainstay of the soon-to-be trillion-dollar electronics industry--can host a novel form of superconductivity that could bring rapid...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength.

Bubble dynamics plays a significant role in mechanics, chemistry, medicine, and biology. Understanding their interactions with the surrounding walls of the container is crucial for numerous applications, including cavita...

Security concerns over radioactive materials have persisted for many years. Airports and other public locations now routinely employ radiation detectors, and nuclear regulators need to be able to monitor the levels of su...

A diverse set of fossils from China shows that a complex marine ecosystem existed 251 million years ago, shortly after a mass extinction wiped out most complex life on Earth

Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) hold great promise as sensitizers for triplet-triplet annihilation up-conversion (TTA-UC) due to their facile bandgap tunability and negligible inter-system crossing loss. However, the un...

A persistent bruise on a woman's hand was actually a tumor.

Killing ticks in an area reduces the number carrying the main bacterium that causes Lyme disease, but a large study found it does not lead to fewer reports of people getting sick

Exceptional points are a distinct type of spectral singularity in non-Hermitian systems and their intriguing physics are in study with optical exceptional points. Exceptional points are singularities in the energy functi...

A gel that lines the respiratory tract prevented coronavirus infections in mice and monkeys, and may also work against any future new variants

People from lower-income households spend up to 6 hours a year longer waiting for basic services than those that are wealthier. Black people also spend longer waiting

A test based on an "epigenetic clock" is the latest basis for claims that calorie restriction slows down ageing - but the jury is still out on whether the dieting strategy really works

A certain amount of noise is inherent in any quantum system. For instance, when researchers want to read information from a quantum computer, which harnesses quantum mechanical phenomena to solve certain problems too com...

According to surveys of 7000 owners, dogs that ate mostly dog food were 29 per cent more likely to develop gastrointestinal problems compared to dogs that mostly ate raw foods

The first people to enter the Americas may have taken the coastal route along the Bering Strait Land Bridge during these two periods.

Black holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great, it bends space around them so tightly that nothing can escape, even light itself. And yet, despite their famous blackness, som...

According to a study published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials, a collaborative research group from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an active terahertz phase ...