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The FDA can now approve drugs that haven't been tested in animals, but don't expect drug companies to switch gears too quickly.

Tracking hippocampal neurons in mice as they watched a movie revealed novel ways to improve artificial intelligence and track neurological disorders associated with memory and learning deficits.

Neurosexuality is a conceptual framework that explores the relationship between sexual behavior and brain function. Researchers say the comprehensive framework could be applied to integrate sexual rehabilitation into tre...

Researchers say brain wave data collected during routine hearing tests in newborns could help doctors to spot the signs of neurodevelopmental disorders, including ASD earlier.

Asteroid (199145) 2005 YY128 will pass by Earth at a distance of 2.5 million miles on Feb. 15, but will pose no threat to our planet.

Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, he was a post-doc investigating a theoretical model with emergent particles in a condensed matter setting. Once...

Sketches found inside Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks, show that he had already grasped the essence of Einstein's 1907 'Equivalence Principle' centuries before the physicist.

From Mexico to Canada, mountain plants are moving upslope to cooler elevations. In some mountain ranges, the upward climb is as fast as 112 metres per decade

From Mexico to Canada, mountain plants are moving upslope to cooler elevations. In some mountain ranges, the upward climb is as fast as 112 metres per decade

Researchers and engineers from QuTech and Eindhoven University of Technology have created Majorana particles and measured their properties with great control.

A focus on revolutionary solutions like carbon capture and geoengineering is slowing the uptake of existing answers to the problems of climate change, air pollution and energy security, says environmental engineer Mark J...

A telecommunications museum in Seattle, with a working exchange from the 1940s, shows how telephones brought us together - but also tore us apart, says Annalee Newitz

From cancer cures to the Kama Sutra, the word "quantum" has been comprehensively hijacked. A book by physicist Chris Ferrie explores why and sets out to fight back

Astronaut Cady Coleman playing duets with her Earth-bound son is among the moving and candid moments from The Longest Goodbye, Ido Mizrahy's poignant exploration of the psychology of space travel

In Montreal, Canada, the diversity of wild bee species has fallen in areas where honeybee colonies have proliferated

Observations of galaxy growth can be explained if the black holes at their centre contain dark energy, pointing to a possible role in the universe's expansion

A seed carrier made from wood screws itself into the ground when exposed to water. It could be useful for projects to replant forests from the air using drones

Ultrasound has been used to direct microbots made from bubbles through the brain of a mouse as they are tracked, and the technology might one day help unblock clots that can cause stroke

How will materials behave under certain conditions? And how to make materials more robust? These two questions are crucial to design advanced materials for structural and functional components and applications. A close l...

Researchers have produced new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy.

As we speed towards a mysterious new bubble of interstellar space, new insights are revealing its exotic chemistry, strange waves and vast bubbles, and their ramifications for life on Earth

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, known as the Doomsday Glacier for the role its melt could play in global sea level rise, is melting more slowly than previously estimated, new research finds. But the glacier is still...