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Two new gene therapies show promise in treating otoferlin-related deafness, an inherited condition.

Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) didn't last long after it landed on the surface of the moon, but it released two rovers - one that hops and one that rolls - that took images on the lunar surface

When Aissam Dam had the strange device connected to his ear, he had no idea it was going to change his life. An 11-year-old boy, Aissam was born deaf due to a single gene mutation. In October 2023, he became the first pe...

Observations of the microquasar SS 433 provide clues to how these small black holes accelerate electrons to produce high-energy jets

The new black hole image offers further confirmation for Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Asteroid 2024 BJ, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will be live-streamed as it zooms within 220,000 miles of Earth, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon.

Rebus puzzles provide wordplay challenges involving both images and text, and they can confound Silicon Valley's most powerful AI models

Electrons that spin to the right and the left at the same time. Particles that change their states together, even though they are separated by enormous distances. Intriguing phenomena like these are completely commonplac...

Scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed and simulated a new energy-efficient way to generate highly focused and finely controlled X-rays that are up to a thousand time...

Sensing technology, integral to environmental monitoring, data acquisition, and precision data processing, is evolving rapidly. Researchers are at the forefront of developing swift, accessible, and cost-effective sensors...

On Jan. 19, Japan's 'Moon Sniper' spacecraft made a successful soft landing on the moon. The landing was the most precise in lunar history; it was also upside-down.

An international research team has successfully conducted ultra-precise X-ray spectroscopic measurements of helium-like uranium. The team, which includes researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Helmho...

Astronomers detected a small asteroid zooming toward Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 21, correctly predicting it would explode over Germany within hours. Here's how they did it.

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, a strategy used by some modern birds

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, a strategy used by some modern birds

Male antechinuses lose three hours of sleep every night during their three-week breeding season to boost their chances of mating, then they die off in a single event.

Antechinus males only live for one breeding season, so they give up 3 hours of sleep a night during this short period before dying of exhaustion

The branch of mathematics known as topology has become a cornerstone of modern physics thanks to the remarkable--and above all reliable--properties it can impart to a material or system. Unfortunately, identifying topolo...

A brief flash of green light was recently spotted coming from Venus in the night sky. The colorful shimmer has only been seen a handful of times before.

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Owls are famously good at rotating their heads, but now anatomical findings suggest they really could go a full 360 degrees without injuring themselves

Particle physicists have detected a novel decay of the Higgs boson for the first time, revealing a slight discrepancy in the predictions of the Standard Model and perhaps pointing to new physics beyond it. The findings a...