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A blood test looks at "chemical tags" on top of DNA to predict how likely a person is to develop preeclampsia.

The new look of Charles Edward Stuart as a young man is based on forensic studies of his death masks.

As the number of cores in a processor continues to grow, so too does the challenge of connecting them all together. Traditional electrical networks fall short due to latency, limited bandwidth, and high-power consumption...

Short naps at the right time of day can boost focus, help solidify memories and potentially improve heart health.

Invisible dark matter may be gathering in the ultra-dense innards of neutron stars, potentially causing them to detonate in massive explosions.

Researchers from Delft established a way to address many quantum dots with only a few control lines using a chessboard-like method. This enabled the operation of the largest gate-defined quantum dot system ever. Their re...

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then, scientists have long acknowledged that Verne's literary...

Polarization describes the orientation of oscillations in a light wave, and it plays an essential role in various optical applications--from enhancing visibility in sunglasses and camera lenses to facilitating advanced o...

A new study at BESSY II analyzes the formation of skyrmions in ferrimagnetic thin films of dysprosium and cobalt in real time and with high spatial resolution. This is an important step towards characterizing suitable ma...

Researchers find that watching immersive videos of candy consumption can significantly reduce one's craving for sweets. Participants who viewed the video 30 times ate an average of a third less candy compared to the cont...

Polarons are quasiparticles composed of excess electrons dressed with virtual phonon clouds. They are ubiquitous in materials and play a key role in various physicochemical properties, including superconductivity, photoc...

Researchers have discovered that the best sleep for older adults comes at bedroom temperatures between 68 and 77°F. Beyond this range, sleep efficiency can plummet by 5-10%.

Scientists from the University of Birmingham and the University of Cambridge have developed a new method for detecting mid-infrared (MIR) light at room temperature using quantum systems.

OSIRIS-REx is due to make its return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's everything you need to know about the mission and what it may reveal about the beginning -- and the potential end -- of life on Earth.

From blue-ringed octopuses to stonefish, here are some of the most venomous, deadly species in our planet's oceans.

Taller people may have longer gastrointestinal tracts that can house a broader array of microorganisms and could protect them against infections from bacteria such as Clostridium difficile

An annual survey started in 1975 suggests that more adults under 50 are using hallucinogens.

Proteins in the cell membranes of most organisms act like the hypothetical "demon" imagined by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, which was thought to break the laws of physics

When times get lean, male spiders may cheat more when wooing females by offering them worthless gifts of leftovers or dry leaves, rather than tasty food.

Paper gets flimsy when wet due to its chemical structure, primarily its hydrogen bonds.

The supermassive black holes at the centre of many galaxies were suspected to quench the formation of new stars - now the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted evidence of this

The word "fractals" might inspire images of psychedelic colors spiraling into infinity in a computer animation. An invisible, but powerful and useful, version of this phenomenon exists in the realm of dynamic magnetic fr...