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Researchers explored the link between the fungus Candida albicans and Alzheimer's disease. They found that C. albicans produces enzymes breaking down the blood-brain barrier, allowing it to access the brain and produce t...

Generating electricity from the movements of molecules in a fluid could one day power devices like tiny medical implants or household appliances

Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units

The UN says approximately 2 million people in Gaza may soon run out of water because Israel has shut off supplies. Here's why the region is so vulnerable to water crises

China's forthcoming Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will search for the origins of cosmic rays in momentary flashes of light beneath the ocean's surface.

With the growth in artificial intelligence (AI), 5G systems, cloud computation, and the Internet of Things, transmitters with extremely high capacities are required for data communication. Ultrafast optical modulation is...

This is the first such communication method to be established with people who are not lucid dreamers

A crocodile in Kenya's Mara River was filmed thrashing around with the corpse of a baby hippo in its jaws in unusual sighting. It is unclear if the crocodile killed the calf or if it snatched a stillborn.

After you've eaten beets, your poop and urine can take on a shocking red or pink color -- but why?

Efforts to expand urban green spaces are undermined by street trees dying prematurely. Restoring their root microbiomes could help them live longer

Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the coin the same way up as it started is around 51 per cent

Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79 carbonized hundreds of scrolls and papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, AI has decoded part of a scroll.

The Orionid meteor shower will peak this weekend. Here's when to get the best view.

Mars is generally thought of as being geologically dead, but a huge marsquake measured by NASA's InSight lander suggests otherwise

Bacteria may seem like a strange ally in the battle against cancer. But in a new study, genetically engineered bacteria were part of a tag-team therapy to shrink tumors. In mice with blood, breast, or colon cancer, the b...

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.

A glacier under covers, a fish in danger of losing its home and threatened African penguins feature in the best entries to the Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition

NASA's Juno spacecraft has swooped close to Jupiter's moon Io, capturing this amazing photo of the surface - and even better ones will come soon

Conservation laws are central to our understanding of the universe, and now scientists have expanded our understanding of these laws in quantum mechanics.

Biologists identified DNA from six species of lemurs in the guts of dung beetles collected in Madagascar, demonstrating a possible way to monitor endangered wildlife

These ancient 'mummy portraits' provide a window into ancient Egyptian life and culture.

Only North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons during the 21st century, but recent indications suggest Russia, the US and China are preparing to resume tests