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The recent surge in warming led to fears that climate change may be accelerating beyond model projections, but a fall in how much heat Earth is gaining makes this less likely

Finding ways to connect the human body to technology could have broad applications in health and entertainment. A new “electric plastic” could make self-powered wearables, real-time neural interfaces, and medical imp...

The 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines are available, and the CDC recommends that certain groups get two doses, spaced six months apart.

A recent study highlights that many autistic children show an intense interest in letters and numbers, which may play a distinct role in their language development. By analyzing clinical records and interviewing parents,...

Large language models can be used to scam humans, but AI is also susceptible to being scammed - and some models are more gullible than others

New research shows that newborns can detect complex sound patterns that follow non-adjacent, language-like rules, suggesting that the ability to process such sequences is innate. Using near-infrared spectroscopy, researc...

Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks.

Researchers have identified a unique "paused state" in the growth of amyloid β fibrils, linked to Alzheimer's disease, using high-speed atomic force microscopy. In this state, fibril growth is halted, allowing an antibo...

An Aston University researcher has developed a new technique using light that could revolutionize non-invasive medical diagnostics and optical communication. The research showcases how a type of light called the orbital ...

Scientists have identified how depression alters the brain's response to positive and negative stimuli, particularly in the amygdala, a key emotional processing center. The study found that depression reduces neural acti...

Researchers think that microgravity could help grow liver "organoids" that could be used in medical research and even in transplant surgeries, someday.

The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distances and set itself down on the Red Planet unassisted

The Attosecond Science group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science has developed a novel light source capable of producing extremely short pulses for the investigation of UV-induced molecular dynamics with unprec...

Researchers Tomohito Amano and Shinji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo with Tamio Yamazaki of CURIE (JSR-UTokyo Collaboration Hub) have developed a new machine learning model to predict the dielectric function of mat...

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the throne room of a powerful queen from the Moche culture, and detailed murals of the female ruler decorate its walls.

The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders "took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones", in what may have been an early act of biological warfare - and now researchers believe they ...

Activated charcoal can reduce the effectiveness of certain medications. But why is that?

A visualization from space of the Gulf Stream as it unfurls across the North Atlantic Ocean.

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen gravitational triad. The system's unique configuration suggests that the black hole was not crea...

A hut sits at an altidue of 1,800 meters near the Mackenzie Mountains in Yukon, Canada.

For the first time, EPFL researchers have exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water, measuring electronic and nuclear quantum effects that were previously accessible only via theoreti...