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Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the same neural pathways as experiencing pain directly. Using advanced imaging techniques, the stu...

Living materials could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, or even space station parts. The post DARPA Wants to ‘Grow’ Enormous Living Structures in Space appeared first on SingularityHub.

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other - how did it crop up independently at about the same time?

Digital generated image of solar panel with purple-blue reflection.

A new study reveals that poor sleep in older adults disrupts the brain's glymphatic system, responsible for clearing harmful waste and toxins. Researchers found that compromised sleep quality leads to dysfunction in this...

New research finds that adults who experienced both physical and sexual abuse in childhood are about twice as likely to suffer chronic physical and mental health issues, such as depression, arthritis, asthma, and heart c...

Children who regularly eat seafood at age 7 exhibit more positive social behaviors--such as sharing, helping, and interacting kindly--by ages 7 and 9, compared to those who rarely consume seafood. This finding, from a la...

New research indicates a strong link between high social media use and psychiatric disorders involving delusions, such as narcissism and body dysmorphia. Conditions like narcissistic personality disorder, anorexia, and b...

The trajectory of AI in translation hints at the future of generative AI. The post What Google Translate Tells Us About Where AI Is Headed Next appeared first on SingularityHub.

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics expe...

In a scene toward the end of the 2006 film, "X-Men: The Last Stand," a character claps and sends a shock wave that knocks out an opposing army. Sunny Jung, professor of biological and environmental engineering in the Col...

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang -- meaning life could have evolved billions of years earlier than previously thought.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

"Today, Texarkana's unusual geographic and political arrangement continues to instruct us about the deeply intertwined nature of politics and health."

The ultrafast dynamics and interactions of electrons in molecules and solids have long remained hidden from direct observation. For some time now, it has been possible to study these quantum-physical processes--for examp...

Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the population over time because they bolstered immune responses against pathogens, new data reveal.

Linguists, psychologists and experts in cultural evolution are discovering why we tell stories, how ancient the oldest ones are and why some tales run and run

Physicists at the University of Cologne have taken an important step forward in the pursuit of topological quantum computing by demonstrating the first-ever observation of Crossed Andreev Reflection (CAR) in topological ...

A tornado hit central Florida on Monday, destroying two homes, uprooting trees and disrupting a FOX TV show as it was tracking the storm live on air.