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Researchers unveiled a significant similarity between AI memory processing and human hippocampal functions. This discovery, bridging AI and neuroscience, highlights a parallel in memory consolidation - a process crucial ...

A model trained on 6 million people's health, employment and financial records can predict death more accurately than tools used by the insurance industry

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, is one of the most ambitious neutrino observatories in the world. ...

Researchers made a pivotal discovery in neuroprotection. They identified how Elovanoid-34, a molecule in the brain, modulates the protein TXNRD1 to combat oxidative stress, a precursor to neurodegenerative diseases.

Rivets found at the site hint that the burial mound once housed a pre-Viking ship.

A new study explores the potential of artificial intelligence, specifically transformer models like ChatGPT, in predicting human life events, including the time of death. Analyzing extensive health and labor market data ...

Researchers unveiled a critical link between breathing and memory consolidation during sleep. In an extensive study involving EEG and breathing analysis, they discovered that specific sleep-related brain rhythms are dire...

Bonobos and chimps in zoos remember individuals they lived with more than 20 years ago, showing a long-term social memory comparable to that of humans

A new NASA survey identified 17 exoplanets that may have the right conditions for liquid water oceans hidden beneath icy shells. The planets could be good candidates in the search for alien life.

I have terrible body temperature control. I stick my head in the freezer when it's sizzling hot outside. Blood vessels in my hands spasm when it's damp and chilly. "I'm hot; now I'm cold" is a running joke in my family. ...

Nature Communications published research by an international team from Wits and ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences, which demonstrates the teleportation-like transport of "patterns" of light--this is the first appr...

Jupiter's moon Io is so volcanically active that any impact craters are rapidly covered up, but an amateur astronomer may have finally spotted the first one ever seen there

Rings, moons, storms and a bright polar cap can be seen in this breathtaking new image of Uranus from the James Webb Space Telescope

In the final episode of our three-part podcast series, Christie Taylor peers into efforts to grow cannabis compounds in labs and explores the problems with pot's environmental footprint

The near-complete remains of a never-before-seen mosasaur that dominated the ancient Pacific Ocean have been unearthed in Japan. The great white shark-size creature is unlike any other aquatic animal, dead or alive.

The finding suggests that weight loss and diabetes injections such Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound, may have wider medical benefits than first thought

Kaiserslautern physicists in the team of Professor Dr. Herwig Ott have succeeded for the first time in directly observing pure trilobite Rydberg molecules. Particularly interesting is that these molecules have a very pec...

Much like the humans that created them, computers find physics hard, but quantum mechanics even harder. But a new technique created by three University of Chicago scientists allows computers to simulate certain challengi...

A pair of astrophysicists at Tianjin University, in China, has proposed ways that humans in the distant future might use black holes as an energy source. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review D, Zhan-Fe...

The Echelon Row-S has 32 levels of magnetic resistance, a 22-inch touchscreen for virtual workouts, and a comfortable padded seat for longer sessions.

Hormone therapy for menopause might be made safer by taking statins at the same time, a study hints.

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.