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The symbols and mathematical operations used in the laws of physics follow a pattern that could reveal something fundamental about the universe

A 1 per cent levy on global retail sales would plug a funding gap of $200 billion when it comes to saving nature. Can COP16 get the world to agree to this ambitious proposal?

Water is the essence of life. When scientists discovered permafrost ice caps on Mars' north pole in 1976, the news immediately sparked speculation about potential life on the red planet. The later discovery of exposed ic...

The upcoming US presidential election will determine how the country regulates tech, combats the climate crisis and decides on access to abortion

Researchers developed an AI algorithm, ARC-SV, to detect complex structural variants in the human genome that previous methods missed. Analyzing over 4,000 genomes, researchers discovered thousands of complex variants, m...

Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it

A backward question mark shape on the creature's back reveals early animal evolutionary history.

Researchers have created a 3D atlas of the developing mouse brain, offering a dynamic, high-resolution view of brain structures during embryonic and post-natal stages. This new tool allows scientists to explore how brain...

A new study reveals that ancient viral DNA embedded in the human genome is associated with genetic risk for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers found specific human endogenous ret...

A large-scale study identified 254 genetic variants that shape the volume of key brain regions responsible for memory, motor control, and behavior. Researchers analyzed DNA and brain scans from nearly 75,000 people, unco...

How parents and toddlers play together can predict children's future social interactions. By observing over 120 mother-child pairs, researchers found that responsive and assertive behaviors during play were linked to bet...

Not all winged dinosaurs were necessarily capable of full flight, but this anatomical feature may have enabled them to travel further by flapping or gliding

A new study demonstrates that home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a safe and effective method for treating depression. Participants in the study who used tDCS at home showed significant improveme...

Fear memories initially form broad associations, but over time, they shift to become episodic memories tied to specific timelines. This process involves the hippocampus early on, with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex i...

Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age - but modern forgers glue together elements from different weapons, making it difficult for researchers to study the ancient techn...

A bright spiral galaxy appears on a background of thousands of other distant galaxies

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core of the sun, where v...

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn't lit the way to a new understanding of space-time

A new study has uncovered the universal dynamics far from equilibrium in randomly interacting spin models, thereby complementing the well-established universality in low-energy equilibrium physics. The study, recently pu...

A new trial suggests that at-home brain stimulation could potentially be a first-line treatment for depression. However, some experts are skeptical.

A research team has proposed a wind sensing lidar theory based on up-conversion quantum interference and successfully developed a prototype. Their work is published in ACS Photonics.

A new video shows how Earth's magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent "polar reversal event."