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Chronic alcohol consumption can increase sensitivity to pain through two molecular mechanisms. Researchers also identified potential new drug targets for treating alcohol-related chronic pain. Over half of people with al...

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here on Earth. This would be reason enough to study hydrogen, bu...

Europe's CERN laboratory has taken its first steps towards building a huge new particle accelerator that would eclipse its Large Hadron Collider--and hopes to see light at the end of the tunnel.

Megaconstellations of satellites are a problem for astronomy, and while SpaceX has made several attempts to dim its Starlink satellites, they don't seem to be having the desired effect

Four people will soon move into the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars (SAM) base in Arizona, where they will have to permanently wear pressurised spacesuits

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI's CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over Will Knight | Wired “Altman's statement suggests that GPT-4 could be the last major advance to emerge from OpenAI's strategy of makin...

High-resolution projections of extreme precipitation in North America show the US north-west and south-east experiencing more severe and frequent floods by the turn of the century

Bill Nye the Science Guy talks about what he would get our planet for Earth Day and "evidence-based optimism" in light of his latest show, "The End is Nye."

The environmental impact of aspirational recycling, where people try to recycle items that can't be recycled, can do more harm than good.

The moon is slowly creeping away from Earth, but will we actually lose the moon before the sun turns into a red giant and destroys us both?

Modern-day technologies like optical computing, integrated photonics, and digital holography require light signals to be manipulated in three dimensions. To achieve this, it is necessary to be able to shape and guide the...