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Shifting your focus could help you overcome the trickery of optical illusions

Researchers have discovered that a person's "bioenergetic age," reflecting how efficiently cells produce energy, strongly predicts Alzheimer's risk and progression. High blood levels of molecules called acylcarnitines, m...

New research has identified cannabis-derived terpenes--compounds that give plants their distinctive aroma--as effective treatments for fibromyalgia and post-surgical pain. In preclinical mouse models, terpenes such as ge...

A monumental tomb found near Corinth has revealed several burials, along with artifacts reflecting its later use as a healing shrine.

A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and molecules, a fundamental process in physics that has implications for various fields including...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth - and it could help us search for it on other planets

Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the seafloor - and it might be happening on other planets, too

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' that reverse the growth of the cosmos, a new pre-print study hints.

Melting ice could weaken Earth's strongest ocean current 20% by 2050, study reveals.

Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the individual particles within it? This question, first asked in 1900, now has a solution that could help us understand the complex behaviour of t...

Skywatchers snapped photos of the "blood moon" hovering above North and South America last night. Here's a gallery of images to celebrate the total lunar eclipse.

In a new publication in Nature Materials, an international team of researchers has developed groundbreaking artificial chains of the iconic "olympicene" molecules to realize the antiferromagnetic (AF) spin-½ Heisenberg ...

A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year, and it appears that a fragment of one fell to Earth and hit a farm in Canada. Thankfully, no one was injured

Have you ever left a bottle of liquid in the freezer, only to find it cracked or shattered? To save you from tedious freezer cleanups, researchers at the University of Amsterdam have investigated why this happens, and ho...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have done okay.

Scientists have found a new way to navigate beams of light through dynamic scattering media, such as the turbulent atmosphere or living tissue.

Everything you need to know about photoplethysmography (PPG), the technology behind heart rate measurements in fitness watches and smart rings.

Genetic analysis of skeletons in a mass grave in Mongolia has revealed they were soldiers in the Han-Xiongnu Wars more than two millennia ago.

New Scientist's revelation that a UK minister is asking ChatGPT for advice raises the question of what role these new AI tools should play in government - and whether we should really think of them as intelligent

It can be difficult to recall exactly when a specific event happened, and now it seems our memory can be tricked into pushing occurrences back in time, making us think they happened earlier than in reality

People find AI more compassionate and understanding than human mental health experts, a new study shows. Even when participants knew that they were talking to a human or AI, the third-party assessors rated AI responses h...