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A new study reveals that mindfulness helps improve sleep quality and reduce stress by focusing on the present and minimizing negative thoughts. The study tracked 144 nurses over two weeks, highlighting how mindfulness in...

People struggle to distinguish between human and AI-generated voices, identifying them correctly only about half the time. Despite this, brain scans revealed different neural responses to human and AI voices, with human ...

EPFL researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications such as noninvasi...

Researchers found that people over 50 with anxiety have twice the risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Using UK primary care data from 2008-2018, the study compared 109,435 patients with anxiety to 878,256 without. Re...

Empathetic children aged 7-9 show poorer health and higher inflammation levels when exposed to interparental conflict. The research highlights the physiological impact of empathy in stressful home environments. The findi...

Researchers developed three new MDMA variants (ODMA, TDMA, and SeDMA) that retain the therapeutic benefits while reducing side effects. These compounds affect mood-regulating brain structures similarly to MDMA but have f...

A new study reveals how our brains recognize and predict musical sequences, activating areas related to sound, memory, and emotions. This understanding could help develop tools to detect cognitive decline and dementia. T...

In a study published in Nature Communications, a team of scientists led by Rice University's Qimiao Si predicts the existence of flat electronic bands at the Fermi level, a finding that could enable new forms of quantum ...

can predict whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer's disease with 78.5% accuracy by analyzing speech. This tool could enable earlier diagnoses and more accessible cognitive impairment scree...

Our arm of the Milky Way is filled with older, metal-rich stars. New research suggests these might provide the best conditions for life to form on their planets

Being able to transplant kidneys using only local anesthetic could shorten patients' hospital stays and make the procedure accessible to more people, doctors say.

A new strain of mpox transmitted mainly by heterosexual sex has emerged in a mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is now spreading to other towns

Researchers have developed an AI model that can translate text into sign language, but experts in Deaf culture and sign language say the translations range from semi-comprehensible to "really unintelligible"

China's Chang'e-6 lunar module has returned from the moon's far side with samples in a historic mission. Its success is a key step toward understanding our planet's early history, and a milestone in the race with the U.S...

Scientists perform necropsy on an ancient wolf pulled from Russian permafrost that may still have prey in its stomach.

A technique for attaching a skin made from living human cells to a robotic framework could give robots the ability to emote and communicate better

A study in humans and lab animals suggests that an antimalarial drug might treat the root cause of PCOS symptoms.

The economical price and decent glass optics make the AmScope M150C a good microscope for students and young children.

Excessive brain growth in the womb has been directly tied to autism in toddlers in new research involving lab-grown "minibrains."

A combination of cultured cells and silicone could help robots appear more human in future thanks to realistic skin elasticity. And they can smile like us too.

Whether space and time are part of the universe or they emerge from quantum entanglement is one of the biggest questions in physics. And we are getting close to the truth

Geocentrism, the idea that everything in the universe revolves around Earth, has long been disproven, but this episode of Dead Planets Society is bringing it back with cataclysmic consequences