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Many patients with ALS die within three to five years of their symptoms starting, so early diagnosis of the disease is critical for treatment.

Nuclear fusion has experienced something of a renaissance in recent years with a host of startups and governments seriously pursuing the idea. UK scientists have now provided a sneak peek of a novel reactor design that c...

Cancer cells are tricky foes. Our body's immune system is normally on the lookout for signs of tumor cells. If any are detected, it launches killer T cells--a type of immune cell--to seek and destroy the threat. But it's...

A study led by researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a novel metal-dielectric film mode filter structure that can flexibly regulate tra...

Feeding bees edible bits of hydrogel increases their odds of surviving pesticide exposure by 30 per cent

Scientists use atomic clocks to measure the "second," the smallest standard unit of time, with great precision. These clocks use natural oscillations of electrons in atoms, similar to how pendulums work in old grandfathe...

The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season.

Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.

The Celestron Origin will have you taking crystal clear stunning pictures of deep sky objects in minutes.

Custom-made wool caps have enabled scientists to record electroencephalograms in awake cats for the first time, which could help assess their pain levels

The Cassini mission's samples from Saturn's moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could be among the ingredients needed for life to get started

An international team of physicists has found that it is possible to generate spin currents directly using certain kinds of ultrashort laser pulses. In their study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the g...

Scientists have measured the magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision, more than doubling the previous record.

The direction of cause and effect was brought into question for quantum objects more than a decade ago, but new calculations may offer a way to restore it

The growing "gateway to the underworld," officially known as the Batagay megaslump, is the largest megaslump in the world and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years old.

When exposed to terms common in different racial dialects, large language models make inherently racist assumptions about people from particular racial groups, even without explicitly knowing their race.

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive.

Thanks to advances in weather simulation, forecasts of heatwaves and hurricanes could soon come with information about the extent to which they were fuelled by climate change

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of uniquely decorated bracelets on the site of a "large and powerful" Viking Age farm.

With Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is safely back on Earth, NASA says Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams could have returned onboard.

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ALS, the most common form of motor neuron disease, can take a long time to diagnose, but a blood test could help doctors spot the condition sooner