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Aperiodic tiling, in which shapes can fit together to create infinite patterns that never repeat, has fascinated mathematicians for decades, but until now no one knew if it could be done with just one shape

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter that have emerged as a novel marine environment pollutant. Microplastics usually result from a breakdown of larger plastic debris but can also be genera...

Calculating Ramsey numbers is so difficult that one mathematician once said he'd rather fight off an alien invasion. Now, mathematicians have made the first major advance in nearly a century

Analysis of wild mammals infected with H5N1 bird flu in the US found that many had brain infections and neurological symptoms, including lack of fear of people

How does the world look like at the smallest scales? This is a question scientists are trying to answer in particle collider experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. To compare the results of th...

A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior, from heavy fermions to exotic quantum phase transitions.

A newly invented wearable microscope produces high-definition and real-time images of neurons and activity in the mouse spinal cord in previously inaccessible regions.

A team of researchers explored the resuspension mechanism of deposited particles under the action of airflow. Using advanced image detection technology and numerical simulation method, a particle resuspension model based...

Blood stem cells use an unexpected method to remove misfolded proteins, and the pathway's activity declines with age. However, boosting the aggrephagy pathway could help prevent age-related diseases.

The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest.

The phenomenon of chemically synthesized life in extreme deep-sea environment is an international research hotspot in deep-sea science and life science. However, due to the extremely low concentration of organic macromol...

Using ECG data, a new machine learning algorithm was able to predict death within 5 years of a patient being admitted to hospital with 87% accuracy. The AI was able to sort patients into 5 categories ranging from low to ...

Researchers found the presence of numerous brain asymmetries in brain areas associated with language and visual tasks like facial recognition in newborns. They also discovered the asymmetries in preterm babies were the s...

Google is now providing limited public access to its Bard AI chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. Here's what we know so far about what it can do and how to access it

Both adults and young children rely on orthographic information, or letter image and word length, over phonological information when reading.

Brain decline begins during our 30s and 40s, and not at age 25 as previously believed, researchers say.

A new study shows that the number of cases and anti-drug resistance of the infectious fungus Candida auris increased between 2019 and 2021.

Asteroid 2023 DZ2 will zip between Earth and the moon's orbit on March 25 and may be visible with the right telescope.

An international team led by Lancaster University has discovered how electrons can slither rapidly to-and-fro across a quantum surface when driven by external forces.

The prehistoric monument Stonehenge was built up to 5,000 years ago on Salisbury Plain in England, but its ultimate purpose remains a tantalizing mystery.

Scientists have found uracil, one of the key building blocks for RNA, on the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu

A cake has been 3D printed using seven simple ingredients blended into pastes. The result was a layered flavour that "hits you in different waves"