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The world's largest example of an office building constructed to passive house standards - using airtight construction and high levels of insulation to cut energy use - is soon to open in Boston, Massachusetts

We've rounded up the best photo editing laptops, from Apple MacBooks and expensive Windows rigs to gaming beasts and lightweight options.

The sensory cortex is much more involved in threat processing and perception than previously believed.

Xanthine, a purine metabolite found in caffeinated products such as coffee and tea, and in chocolate, appears to play a role in TH17 cell differentiation in the gut. The findings may lead to a better understanding of gut...

An update to the AI behind ChatGPT has been released by OpenAI. The firm says other companies are already using it, including the language-learning app Duolingo, the payment service Stripe and Microsoft's Bing search eng...

When the reward is less than expected, people with OCD exhibit lower-than-normal learning rates. Conversely, those with gambling addictions exhibit boosted and blunted patterns of learning when the rewards are higher and...

In samples of organic-rich black shale, scientists found evidence for oxygen depletion and hydrogen sulfide expansion in ancient seas.

Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have published their first data showing how three distinct variations of particles called upsil...

Using a mathematical model to study how the brain predicts information and learns, researchers discovered signals for accuracy are found in the anterior insula and anxiety affects activity levels in this brain region.

The rare manuscript is believed to be one of only 277 known copies of Copernicus' book worldwide.

Tissue-based models of the human heart are being sent to the International Space Station.

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a widely used chemical used in decaffeinated coffee, metal degreasers, and dry cleaning clothes formulas, has been linked to a 500% increased risk of Parkinson's disease.

The ancient Celts were fierce warriors who lived in mainland Europe. But during the Renaissance, an idea took hold that they lived in the British Isles.

Researchers discovered that the orientation of a single amino acid in a sea slug can determine which neuron receptor is activated, leading to different types of neuronal activities. This finding sheds light on how the br...

The US operates drones in international airspace around Ukraine, and a Russian fighter jet has hit one - an MQ-9 Reaper drone - in an incident the US military is calling "unsafe and unprofessional"

Researchers are investigating the use of AI technology in complex decision-making situations with the goal to identify the best human attributes artificial intelligence can mimic when faced with making difficult decision...

According to researchers, great apes spin themselves in order to make themselves dizzy. The dizzying behavior could shed new light on humans' drive to seek altered states of mind, and actively manipulate their mood and p...

Researchers have developed a more powerful and energy-efficient memristor, based on the structure of the human brain, that combines data storage and processing. The new technology, made from nanocrystals of halogenated p...

Older adults who consumed a Mediterranean-style diet had a 23% lower risk of developing dementia than those who consumed a typical diet.

Museum curators in the Netherlands think that a dazzling, 1,200-year-old array of gold jewelry and silver coins unearthed by a metal detectorist was buried in a medieval swamp to save it during wartime.

A high-resolution camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped pictures of unusual, almost perfectly circular sand dunes on the Red Planet's surface.

Great power, aesthetics, and screen options, but the Dell XPS 13 Plus is a risky ultraportable that falls short of expectations in several key departments.