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The newly discovered water mass, called the Atlantic Equatorial Water, stretches from Brazil to West Africa.

Memory formation occurs through the continuous creation of new connectivity patterns between specific engram cells in different brain regions. Engram cells are activated by experiences and change to hold information in o...

Contrary to popular belief, the brain does not completely rewire itself in response to injury, such as loss of sight or amputation. Researchers argue that the brain enhances or modifies its pre-existing architecture thro...

Researchers found thousands of clay stamps used to seal official documents inside a former city archive in Doliche.

Teams at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently celebrated the completion of a major upgrade to the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL), the Linac Coherent Light Sou...

DeepMind's new machine learning algorithm takes less than a minute to make its forecasts and can run on a desktop. But it won't replace traditional forecasts anytime soon.

Writing in PRX Quantum, Nathan Goldman and Lucila Peralta Gavensky (Science Faculty, ULB) and their colleagues introduce a general framework for modifying and controlling the nature of nonlinearities in a broad class of ...

A massive sunspot region made up of at least six different sunspot groups has emerged on the sun's nearside. The "archipelago" of dark patches is spitting out solar storms at an alarming rate and Earth will soon be in th...

The latest and most violent eruption of the cryovolcanic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which will make its long-awaited closest approach to Earth next year, shows that the icy object may have lost its iconic devil horns for goo...

Babies as young as four months old can sense how their bodies interact with the space around them, shedding light on early self-awareness development. In the study, babies were shown a moving ball on a screen, accompanie...

A widely used form of encryption called RSA is thought to be unbreakable, but an analysis of more than 5 billion server records has found that, in some cases, hardware errors can lead to secret keys being exposed

Forensic science has captured the public imagination by storm, as the profusion of "true crime" media in the last decade or so suggests. By now, most of us know that evidence left at a crime scene, such as blood, can oft...

We keep spotting molecular "biosignatures" in the atmospheres of planets beyond Earth, but it isn't clear if any of them can provide definitive evidence that we're not alone

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a cryptographic tool that allows for the verification of validity between mutually untrusted parties without disclosing additional information. Non-interactive zero-knowledge proof (NIZKP) i...

CRISPR-based therapies just hit another milestone. In a small clinical trial with 10 people genetically prone to dangerously high levels of cholesterol, a single infusion of the precision gene editor slashed the artery-c...

Acoustic beam shaping with high degrees of freedom is critical for ultrasound imaging, acoustic regulation, and stimulation. The ability to fully regulate the acoustic pressure profile relative to its propagation path re...

Processing quantum information relies on interacting qubits--the basic building blocks of quantum information--to perform computational tasks. Scientists are searching for the optimal qubit platform that can perform oper...

In the two-part season finale of Dead Planets Society, our hosts are turning Earth into a cube with fascinating results - walking to space, enormous sea monsters and more

Phenomenologists must make precise predictions for what they expect DUNE data to look like.

Researchers reveal that higher amounts of visceral abdominal fat in midlife is associated with the development of Alzheimer's disease. Visceral fat, the fat surrounding internal organs, is linked to brain changes up to 1...

To tackle global warming, we must properly grasp what is happening in the oceans. That is why, at COP28, we will be calling on world leaders to urgently ramp up marine observations, says oceanographer Margaret Leinen

Researchers found that Carbon Quantum Dots (CACQDs) derived from used coffee grounds could protect brain cells from damage caused by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. CACQDs showed neuroprotect...