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Rats emit a high-pitched squeak when around another rat, seemingly just to express a positive emotion

New research reveals that manganese exposure in early life stages may enhance verbal learning and memory during adolescence. The study, utilizing tooth manganese levels as biomarkers, indicates that prenatal exposure is ...

In today's fast-paced technological landscape, the proverb "the bigger the better" was turned upside down and a race to make everything smaller has started. From miniature optical components to micro-scale medical device...

Over the past 40 years, rising humidity means the atmospheric conditions that trigger severe storms are now more likely to occur - but there might not necessarily be more tornadoes as a result

Orcas have been damaging or sinking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar for the past few years and we don't know why

Researchers discovered that oral contraceptives may thin the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in women, potentially influencing emotion regulation, especially fear responses. The study examined both current and for...

A new map of 56,000 cells in the outer layer of the human brain could inform research into a whole class of diseases.

Researchers have identified the crucial mechanism behind the brain's ability to recycle older proteins, a key factor in maintaining cognitive health. The study shows that a specific pathway allows for the efficient trans...

Senescent cells are biochemical waste factories. A new study suggests that a way to wipe them out is a medicine already approved for eye problems. Dubbed "zombie cells," senescent cells slowly accumulate with age or with...

The first images from ESA's dark universe detective Euclid are out, featuring spectacular views of nebulas, distant galaxies and globular clusters of thousands of stars.

We can now synthesise THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in bioreactors - these could be used to make new therapeutic compounds with a lower environmental cost

The massive volcanic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which grows giant horns when it erupts, has exploded for a third time in five months as it continues to race toward the sun.

An oral medicine called anastrozole has been approved by the UK's drug regulatory agency for reducing the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women at moderate-to-high risk of the condition

A new facial reconstruction depicts a Neanderthal whose skeleton was found by priests in a French cave.

Low-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame have become common in all our diets. With concerns over their health impacts, should you turn to new plant-based alternatives to get your sweet hit?

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system's planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it's time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world

Microscopes usually use backscattered radiation to create images, but a research group from the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo is developing a new method to study materials using the faint lig...

Weyl semimetals are highly sought after by material scientists. First predicted in the early 2010s, they belong to the class of topological materials that owe their unique transport, optical and thermoelectric behavior t...

Wouldn't it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has released five of its first science images, including an iconic nebula and glistening galaxies

Scientists have discovered something strange happened to starfish over the course of their evolution, and they ended up as heads scampering around the seafloor.

In this book extract, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith look at cannibalism in space from a legal and culinary perspective.