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A new study sheds light on the role of a long-puzzling cochlear signal, indicating it could inform the brain about the ear's health status. This research provides important insights into understanding the mechanisms of n...

Should you buy the Levoit Core 400s air purifier this Prime Day -- or is another model better suited to your home?

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface.

A new study reveals that the composition of scent compounds on a person's hand can accurately determine their sex. The analysis, using mass spectrometry, successfully predicted an individual's sex with an impressive accu...

Stunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.

Optical holography is a powerful method for recording and reconstructing complete optical field information, including intensity and phase. It has found extensive applications in various fields, such as optical display, ...

Driverless cars can use lasers to sense objects, but reflected light from nearby vehicles or bright sunlight can interfere. A system using entangled photons could help the vehicles avoid obstacles

The study proposes a new term for this variant of depression - "TBI affective syndrome". Fundamentally, this research marks a significant step toward personalized treatment strategies for TBI patients.

Researchers found a correlation between physical activity in adults over sixty and quality of life. The study, involving almost 1,500 participants, revealed that reduced physical activity and increased sedentary behavior...

A large US study has found that being overweight but not obese carried a slightly lower risk of dying within the study period than being a supposedly healthy weight

Scent compounds released by your hands can be used to determine gender, which may be useful in figuring out information about crime scenes

Researchers discovered a biomarker for major depressive disorder (MDD) in the brain's outer layer folds, or gyri. The investigation, first of its kind, associates MDD with the local gyrification index (LGI), a measure of...

Researchers identified the brain's verbal language catalog, or auditory lexicon, in an unexpected location: the front of the primary auditory cortex, not its back. This discovery defies a century-long assumption about br...

Sigmund Freud thought we had a superego, an unconscious power that criticised and punished us. Does this idea help explain the internet's excesses, asks Mark Edmundson's intriguing new book

From a solar flare to the Jellyfish Nebula, these are some of the photographs in the running for the annual competition organised by the Royal Observatory in London, UK

Tom Ireland's compelling and original book makes a strong case for revisiting phage therapy - the idea of fighting bacterial infections with viruses

Advances in rocket technology are exciting, but we need to investigate how non-terrestrial gravity affects astronauts' psychology and cognition, says neuroscientist Elisa Raffaella Ferrè

The recollection and processing of childhood abuse or neglect can significantly impact mental health in adulthood, more than the experiences themselves. The research revealed that self-reported experiences of early maltr...

A study exploring "concept creep" suggests that, with increased mental health awareness following the COVID-19 pandemic, the concepts of "anxiety" and "depression" are broadening. The study revealed that, contrary to exp...

Researchers use a new tool to help improve a key component in commercially produced quantum computing circuits. The team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames National Laboratory in partnership wi...

The number of sunspots in June was higher than any month during the current or previous solar cycles, suggesting the upcoming solar peak will be far more active than initially anticipated.

When you turn on a lamp to brighten a room, you are experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons must obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mec...