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Newly released emails have revealed that the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin was aware of concerns over the potential energy use and carbon emissions of the cryptocurrency, but felt there was no alternative

Astronomers have found a new moon around Uranus and two orbiting Neptune - the first moons discovered orbiting these planets in a decade and the faintest ever spotted

A hyperactive sunspot recently unleashed its third X-class flare in under 24 hours. The X6 flare is the most powerful since 2017 and could be followed by equally massive explosions.

Researchers introduced a groundbreaking non-invasive brain stimulation technique called Patterned Low-Intensity Low-Frequency Ultrasound (LILFUS). This innovative method can precisely target and modulate specific brain r...

The human body, specifically the heart, responds to external auditory stimuli during sleep, challenging the notion that the body is disconnected from the environment during this rest period. Their study demonstrates that...

Researchers achieved a breakthrough in mapping the brain's 'dysfunctome'--key dysfunctional circuits linked to disorders like Parkinson's, dystonia, OCD, and Tourette's syndrome. Utilizing deep brain stimulation (DBS) da...

An NIH study many years in the making starts to unravel the biology of a misunderstood disease called ME/CFS.

Researchers made a significant breakthrough in understanding how ketamine treats depression-related social impairments, focusing on the drug's effects in the mouse model. Their study shows that (R)-ketamine, as opposed t...

The bright-red pigment is housed inside an "elegant and valuable" stone vial.

Last year, the world's oceans broke many warming records. Environment reporter James Dinneen went to the world's largest gathering of ocean scientists to find out how bad the situation is and what can be done about it

Adding alkaline chemicals to the huge volumes of wastewater discharged into the oceans each year could increase the amount of CO2 that gets sequestered, but the idea has been controversial

A device that measures minuscule gravitational forces could help us understand how gravity works on the quantum scale

Scientists are a step closer to unraveling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity on a microscopic level.

A bizarre dragon-like creature that lived during the Triassic period used its remarkably long neck to hunt unsuspecting prey in shallow water, scientists have found.

Unusually high temperatures combined with the abatement of the El Niño southern oscillation could aid the formation of extreme hurricanes this year.

The adorable 1-year-old male calf was filmed enjoying playtime in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

A new analysis by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, provides the first direct evidence of t...

As permafrost melts as a result of climate change, it may release more radon, a colorless, odorless gas linked with lung cancer.

Networks can represent changing systems, like the spread of an epidemic or the growth of groups in a population of people. But the structure of these networks can change, too, as links appear or vanish over time. To bett...

Intuitive Machines successfully landed its spacecraft on the moon's south pole in a historic mission that puts the U.S. back on lunar soil for the first time in over 50 years.

A mimic of Martian soil can be turned into strong fibres. Such a material could be used to help build a base or grow plants on the Red Planet

In 1912, biochemist Casimir Funk discovered vitamins, and more than a century later his legacy lives on.