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A group of specialised immune cells in the gut seems to have a protective role in people with Crohn's disease, and may help doctors predict how the illness will progress

The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity.

When it comes to ancient humans in Asia, we have so many fossils and no consensus on how to make sense of them

Depression, a challenging condition to diagnose early, may now be detected more promptly using a simple 1-minute Electroencephalogram (EEG) test at home. This study revealed a relationship between EEG results and the sev...

Researchers have delved deeper into mouse behavior, challenging previous assumptions about their cognitive strategies in reward-based learning tasks. While humans efficiently adopt the "win-stay, lose-shift" approach in ...

The removal of a major anti-vaccine page in November 2020 by Facebook didn't reduce misinformation and instead led to remaining anti-vaccine content becoming more extreme and getting more engagement

The past few years have seen a massive surge in the amount of data transferred and processed per second. Rapidly emerging technologies, such as high-dimensional quantum communications, large-scale neural networks, and hi...

Optical metrology, as a general-purpose metrology technique that uses light as information carriers for non-contact and non-destructive measurement, is fundamental to manufacturing, basic research, and engineering applic...

Contrary to the widely held belief that Parkinson's disease originates from the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, a new study suggests a precursor: synaptic dysfunction. This revelation unveils the dysfunction of dop...

Magnets, those everyday objects we stick to our fridges, all share a unique characteristic: they always have both a north and a south pole. Even if you tried breaking a magnet in half, the poles would not separate--you w...

Oxytocin may be responsible for new mothers' heightened ability to see faces in inanimate objects, but more research is needed.

Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky -- but a new study may reveal 12,000 new ways to make it work.

The Beats Fit Pro are the closest you'll get to AirPods for workouts.

Recently I perched on the edge of a cliff at Asuable Chasm, staring at the whitewater over 100 feet below. Water rushed through sandstone cliffs before hitting a natural break and twirling back onto itself, forming multi...

When tadpoles are raised in white, black or grey trays, they adapt their colour to match their background, which may help them avoid being eaten by birds and fish

In a study published in Science Advances, Chinese researchers have demonstrated the dynamics of liquid entrainment on solid surfaces with millimeter structures.

Drinks in transparent bottles are difficult to fortify with vitamin D because the supplement breaks down when exposed to UV light, but tiny protein capsules that protect the vitamin could help

The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it's survived -- almost unchanged --...

With comfort at their core, the Mizuno Wave Rider 27 are perfect running shoes for churning out the easy miles, particularly over the cooler months.

Apple's best student tablet is discounted again at B&H Photo.

A study of 100 children found that those who experience growing pains are more likely than their peers to get migraines five years later

The risk of a rare type of brain hemorrhage may be transmissible, though the absolute risk is very low.