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Archaeologists have found the remains of dozens of people in a roughly 7,000-year-old stone tomb in Oman.

Quantum dots in semiconductors such as silicon or gallium arsenide have long been considered hot candidates for hosting quantum bits in future quantum processors. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen U...

The cells could potentially be used to treat range of medical conditions, from heart attacks to cancer, without having to be made from scratch for each person

A reanalysis of Voyager data suggests that four of Uranus moons may have oceans tucked between their cores and icy crusts.

It is often desirable to restrict flows--whether of sound, electricity, or heat--to one direction, but naturally occurring systems almost never allow this. However, unidirectional flow can indeed be engineered under cert...

Clostridium difficile kills 13,000 people each year in the US alone. A new antibiotic tested in mice works better than our first-line treatments against infection - and prevents reinfection too

Maine reported a potential measles case in a child and is awaiting confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An 8-year-old girl discovered a Stone Age dagger when she was playing outside her school in Norway.

350 million people worldwide are believed to suffer from blinding diseases including age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Researchers have discovered a small class of drugs, dubbed SREDs, that have ...

An optical spectrometer is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the light spectrum. These devices have found a wide range of practical applications. Dispersive optical elements (e....

A gas cloud 13 billion light-years away may be the resting place of some of the earliest stars in the universe.

Scientists developed a potential anti-depressant drug that exhibits anti-stressing and anti-depressant effects with minimal side effects. The drug is KNT-127quickly acts on the patient without inducing resistance. Resear...

Over the last decade, with the introduction of increasingly complex artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the demand for computing power has risen exponentially. New, energy-efficient hardware designs could help mee...

Researchers have developed a zebrafish model that offers new insights into how the brain acquires essential omega-3 fatty acids, including DHA and ALA. Their findings could help in designing drug molecules capable of dir...

Thousands of offshore wells have been left uncapped in the Gulf of Mexico, which means oil or methane could leak out and harm marine ecosystems

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot strange asteroid belts around the nearby star Fomalhaut, along with evidence for at least three planets

A new study delves into how advanced AI systems affect our trust in the individuals we interact with. Researchers report a strong design perspective is driving the development of AI with increasingly human-like features.

Surfactants play an important role in every day life, for instance as major components in soaps. Since they feature hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts in their structure, they accumulate at water interfaces with air and c...

A time crystal, as originally proposed in 2012, is a new state of matter in which the particles are in continuous oscillatory motion. Time crystals break time-translation symmetry. Discrete time crystals do so by oscilla...

While human aging is the result of many interconnected processes, one of the most fundamental is the natural deterioration of individual cells. Now researchers have shown that they can use synthetic biology to significan...

Researchers have developed a faster and more accurate diagnostic technique for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and chronic wasting disease (CWD). The method dramatically improve...

The motion of an electron in a strong infrared laser field is tracked in real time by means of a novel method developed by MPIK physicists and applied to confirm quantum-dynamics theory by cooperating researchers at MPI-...