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A vertical farm built inside a greenhouse in Texas can produce hundreds of thousands of heads of lettuce with significantly less energy than usual

In people who are bilingual in English and Chinese, certain cortical areas react specifically to Chinese ideograms and appear to be involved in facial recognition processing.

Babies who are exclusively breastfed or consume a mixed diet of breast and formula milk during the first 8 weeks of life are at lower risk of having learning disabilities compared to those who are exclusively bottle-fed,...

The NPAS4 gene may play a critical role in linking long-term stress to depression and depressive behaviors. The findings may lead to new, targeted treatments for depression as a result of chronic stress.

Genetic testing of 23 woolly mammoths shows that they weren't always so furry.

High blood pressure during your 30s increases the risk of dementia and cognitive decline later in life. Treating hypertension early can help to prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in your 70s.

Bird eggs are so diverse, so which are the largest and smallest, and how do they get their colors?

In rare cases, COVID-19 can cause fetal brain damage during pregnancy, a case report suggests.

Researchers have deciphered a long-lost text written by the ancient astronomer Claudius Ptolemy.

Deaths by suicide significantly increase during the week of a full moon, specifically in those aged 55 and older. Researchers also discovered deaths by suicide were more likely to occur between 3-4 p.m. and more people t...

If you know the atoms that compose a particular molecule or solid material, the interactions between those atoms can be determined computationally, by solving quantum mechanical equations--at least, if the molecule is sm...

More than 200 years ago, the English scientist Thomas Young carried out a famous test known as the "double-slit experiment." He shone a beam of light at a screen with two slits in it, and observed that the light that pas...

Students at Carnegie Mellon University are sending America's first lunar rover to the moon this May, beating NASA to the punch by about a year.

A study published in Nature Communications highlights the progress made in practical quantum sensing by a team led by academician Guo Guangcan and Prof. Sun Fangwen from the University of Science and Technology of China ...

Since 2010, around 500 home runs in Major League Baseball can be attributed to the lowering of air density on hotter days

Warmer temperatures due to climate change is resulting in more home runs in Major League Baseball.

Weird hands have become a well-known way to identify an image generated by artificial intelligence, but that could be set to change

Shrimp-like amphipods may be the architects of lines of holes at the bottom of the Bering Sea, which serve as a habitat to a wide range of fauna roaming the abyss

Philosophers have long debated whether Earth is the best of all worlds. More powerful telescopes are finally giving us a better chance of answering this question, writes astronomer Chris Impey