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Putting two forms of semiconductor material called gallium oxide together seems to make it completely resistant to radiation

The two closest black holes to Earth, named Gaia BH1 and BH2, may be part of a rare class of black holes never seen before, new research suggests.

When many quantum particles interact, complex systems can be formed. And this complexity allows reaching a temperature of absolute zero--at least in principle.

Following COVID-19 infection, all subtypes of dementia, irrespective of a person's previous dementia type, behave like rapidly progressive dementia.

Following TBI, the brain's immune cells' internal recycling functions slow significantly, allowing waste products to build up and interfere with injury recovery. Treatment with rapamycin helps lower neuroinflammation and...

An international group of researchers has created a mixed magnon state in an organic hybrid perovskite material by utilizing the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-Interaction (DMI). The resulting material has potential for processin...

Like humans, rats fall prey to conjunction fallacies, or the incorrect assumption that if two events sometimes occur at the same time, they are more likely to occur together than either event is to occur alone.

Using a combination of intelligence tests, genetic analysis, and neuroimaging data, researchers found there are only a few areas of the frontal, parietal, and visual cortices where gene variations influence brain charact...

An amateur gold digger in Australia has unearthed a massive gold nugget worth $160,000.

A new study found people who experienced social isolation for eight hours reported higher levels of tiredness. The findings suggest low energy may be a basic human response to a lack of social communication.

The Viking shields found on the Gokstad ship in 1880 were not strictly ceremonial and may have been used in hand-to-hand combat, according to a new analysis.

Laser-induced electrochemical deposition of metals on metals relies possibly on thermal and defect generation effects. When semiconductor substrates are chosen, locally photogenerated electrons can reduce metal ions resu...

As fundamental properties of light, spectra and polarization carry vital information concerning the propagation of light waves. For example, spectral imaging can reflect the material composition of objects, while polariz...

Appendicitis refers to the inflammation of a small structure in the gastrointestinal tract. The condition can lead to dangerous complications.

60 unique proteins expressed in the brain may be key to regulating body weight, a new study reveals.

April 2023's full moon is known as the Pink Moon and the Paschal Moon. It will be at its fullest at 12:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, April 6, 2023.

An enormous red halo of light flashed in the night sky above Italy before disappearing within milliseconds. It was likely caused by an electromagnetic pulse from a nearby thunderstorm.

A fungus that normally infects trees caused an abscess to form in a man's neck.

Capuchins, which have hands similar to ours, are deceived by a sleight-of-hand trick. But marmosets, which lack opposable thumbs, aren't fooled

An innovative new technique to detect and characterize molecules with greater precision has been proposed, paving the way for significant advances in environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and industrial processe...

The Yanomami people of the Amazon have the world's most diverse gut microbiome - and David Good, who is half Yanomami, thinks it might hold the clues to better health

Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting mirrors are flexible en...