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A new study explores the impact of the internet on human morality, highlighting how evolved responses like compassion and the urge to punish are distorted online. The internet's constant stream of extreme stimuli leads t...

Middle-aged adults explore new environments less thoroughly than younger individuals, prioritizing key locations over overall layout. Using virtual reality, the study observed significant differences in exploration and n...

Researchers discovered that the brain processes pain and pleasure through overlapping regions. By analyzing sustained pain from capsaicin and pleasure from chocolate, they identified distinct brain activity patterns link...

People can stay in comas for weeks, months or even years. But what causes some of these patients to "wake up"?

Is the newest Galaxy Watch worth the upgrade?

Wild African elephants use name-like calls to address each other, a rare ability among nonhuman animals. Researchers confirmed this by using machine learning to analyze elephant calls and observing that elephants respond...

The AirPods Pro (2nd gen) are a marked upgrade over the first model -- they just keep getting better.

Theoretical physicist Thomas Hertog tells us how he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on his final theorem -- a Darwinian revolution in physics that explains the origin of time.

Researchers created a virtual rat with an AI brain to study how real rats control movement. Using data from real rats, they trained the AI to mimic behaviors in a physics simulator. The virtual rat's neural activations c...

23.5% of people with bipolar disorder have achieved complete mental health, while 43% are free of all bipolar symptoms. Despite these positive findings, those with a history of bipolar disorder are less likely to flouris...

Early exposure to odors in newborn mice is crucial for the development of their sense of touch. Researchers found that pleasant smells activate brain areas responsible for touch within the first week of life, influencing...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a snapshot of two massive asteroids colliding in a nearby star system -- and it could teach us about how common solar systems like our own are.

People's social networks significantly predict a song's future popularity, increasing machine learning prediction accuracy by 50%. Analyzing data from last.fm, researchers found that friendships and listening habits are ...

New research shows that the speed of sound on Mars varies considerably by location and temperature. The findings could help scientists understand sounds picked up by Martian rovers, as well as make future crewed ventures...

Personal trauma impacts how people perceive distressing imagery, like decorated masks. The study showed that those with traumatic histories had stronger emotional reactions to trauma-related images compared to neutral on...

Are points of infinite curvature, where general relativity breaks down, always hidden inside black holes? An audacious attempt to find out is shedding light on the mystery of quantum gravity

The largest collection yet of detailed medical data and tissue samples from astronauts should help researchers better understand the impacts of space flight on health

Quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems in human health, drug discovery, and artificial intelligence millions of times faster than some of the world's fastest supercomputers. A network of quantum c...

Researchers snapped a photo of a baby Irrawaddy dolphin in a group of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins swimming off the coast of Cambodia.

MINFLUX is a powerful microscopy technique that allows researchers to see objects much smaller than the wavelength of light. A newly developed evolution of the process uses a simpler device to create the light pattern ne...

A study led by Nagoya University in Japan revealed that a simple thermal reaction of gallium nitride (GaN) with metallic magnesium (Mg) results in the formation of a distinctive superlattice structure. This represents th...

Earth is lagging behind other worlds with its single moon, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society we are giving it more - and giving those moons moonmoons to orbit them