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The elastocaloric effect is a phenomenon where a material displays a temperature change when it is exposed to a mechanical stress. The change in temperature occurs due to an entropy difference resulting from a martensiti...

Artificial light doesn't actually attract insects but instead interferes with the control systems they use to orientate their body when flying

The silver coins, mainly from the first century B.C., were unearthed in Tuscany in Italy and are hidden relics from a turbulent time in Roman history.

Children with larger vocabularies look directly and quickly towards an object when learning new words, while those with smaller vocabularies look back and forth between objects and have a slower response time.

Parkinson's disease does not generally reduce cognitive function within the first five years, a new study reports.

A simple memory test can predict whether a person will experience cognitive decline and memory problems years in the future, a new study reports.

Analyzing data from the popular music streaming service Spotify, researchers found the music we listen to while studying and the songs we prefer while falling asleep share more similarities than music in general.

Analyzing the gene activity map or transcriptome of different brain diseases can help identify underlying mechanisms and comorbidity. The method could also uncover new relationships among diseases and improve treatment o...

Non-classical states of light such as single photons and entangled photons are key ingredients for chips dedicated to quantum computation, quantum sensing, quantum measurement, etc. Fabrication of a traditional chip is h...

Suvorexant, a dual orexin receptor antagonist commonly prescribed to help treat insomnia reduced levels of the Alzheimer's-associated amyloid beta protein in the brain. The findings hint that the sleep medication could s...

Even if you are not a quantum physicist, you will most likely have heard of Schrödinger's famous cat. Erwin Schrödinger came up with the feline that can be alive and dead at the same time in a thought experiment in 193...

CCommon infections, including the chickenpox virus and herpes simplex virus type 1, can worsen cognitive performance and increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in middle-aged and older adults, a new study re...

Researchers are developing and testing a novel EEG system that is worn in the ear, similar to an earbud, that maps brain activities during sleep and could help diagnose neurodegenerative diseases from the data it collect...

Protein shells designed using AI can work as carriers for immunity-inducing molecules, generating more antibodies in mice than some competing vaccine approaches

Marine mammals use a variety of tricks to snooze at sea - elephant seals fall asleep and gradually drift to the depths

A quadcopter can use its inflatable body to land on a wide variety of objects. The collision-resistant drone could help search-and-rescue missions

Physicists from the University of Utrecht and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have observed--for the first time experimentally--the Brazil nut effect in a mixture of charged colloidal particles.

The crescent moon, Venus and the Pleiades will reach conjunction during the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower this Saturday. Here's how to watch the stunning show.

The "spooky action at a distance" that once unnerved Einstein may be on its way to being as pedestrian as the gyroscopes that currently measure acceleration in smartphones.

Just like people, the simple nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans is driven to consume high-calorie food when its cannabinoid receptors are activated, hinting at a common signalling pathway for preventing starvation

Ultralight dark matter particles that behave like waves, called axions, seem to be a better match for gravitational lensing measurements than more traditional explanations for dark matter

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