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Forty years ago, a strange, empty shark egg case was found off the coast of Western Australia, and scientists have finally determined the species it belongs to

Editor’s Note: The following is a brief letter from Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google and cofounder and member of the board at Singularity Group, Singularity Hub’s parent company, in response to the F...

With huge teeth and large eyes, Crassigyrinus scoticus was specially adapted to hunt in the coal swamps of Scotland and North America.

Poor verbal memory may increase the risk of psychiatric hospitalization for patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder or depression. According to the research, the severity of the illness was previously thought to have an...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) commonly used to treat depression and anxiety can improve the quality of aging females' egg cells in roundworms and fruit flies. The study found that the exposure to SSRIs ...

Doctors performed a first-of-its-kind brain surgery on a fetus in the womb to repair a malformed blood vessel.

The World Health Organization no longer considers COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern and has brought an end to an emergency declaration that has been in place since January 2020.

Scientists in Brazil may have observed the first example of an amphibian pollinating a flowering plant.

An analysis of ancient mammoth tusks has revealed that they underwent musth just like modern elephants do.

A new systematic review examined nutritional interventions for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The review identified 38 studies, including randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. The findings indicat...

Oregon State Parks said several lancetfish have washed up on beaches in recent weeks in a highly unusual spate of strandings.

The World Health Organization has declared an end to covid-19's designation as a public health emergency of international concern, saying the pandemic is on a "downward trend"

The long-accepted practice of search engines scraping content from websites is being re-examined now that the data is being used to build valuable artificial intelligence tools

Alexandrite laser crystals are well suited for use in Earth observation satellites. They are robust and enable laser systems with a tunable output wavelength. In the European Horizon 2020 project GALACTIC, the partners L...

Researchers developed an AI system called ProteinSGM, which uses generative diffusion to create entirely new therapeutic proteins. The model learns from image representations to generate fully new proteins that appear to...

Transporting energy is costly. When a current runs through conductive materials, some of the energy is lost due to resistance as particles within the material interact--just notice the warmth from your phone or laptop. T...

Viewing interactive art online can improve our mood and reduce anxiety. People reported significant improvements in mood and anxiety after just a few minutes of viewing an interactive Monet Water Lily art exhibition from...

To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does and how it contributes to its function. In other words, one should be able ...

A new study has revealed that 380 zettajoules of energy was trapped by global warming between 1971 and 2020.

Researchers identified a special transporter protein, Mfsd2a, that plays a critical role in regulating the brain cells responsible for protecting nerves with myelin sheaths. Loss of myelin sheaths can occur during the no...

In physics, one often has to deal with different scales that can be described separately from one another: For the Earth's orbit around the sun, it makes absolutely no difference whether an elephant in the zoo walks to t...

The known population of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now just two males. Experts said that if the female had survived, she could have "laid a hundred eggs or more a year."