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A new music therapy-based tool called MuSICCA may transform how healthcare teams assess consciousness in children with severe brain injuries. Developed to address the lack of reliable diagnostic methods for children aged...

Glaucoma damages the optic nerve and is usually managed by reducing eye pressure, though treatment effects vary. Researchers have long suspected a link with homocysteine, but new findings reveal it is a bystander, not a ...

While intermittent fasting may be growing in popularity, relatively little is known about how it impacts our gut microbiome - for better or for worse

An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates. Experts say the problem is bigger than that

A groundbreaking new technique called EPSILON allows researchers to map the proteins involved in memory formation with unprecedented detail, providing a window into the molecular architecture of learning. This approach f...

The Talon-A2 vehicle air-launched from the world's biggest aircraft and piloted itself at hypersonic speeds before landing in California. The post Stratolaunch’s Hypersonic Plane Breaks Mach 5 and Lands Without a Pilot...

Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many smaller ways it disturbs our daily life

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed.

Discover interesting facts about why plants are green, if they feel pain, and if they get cancer.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) utilizes mid-infrared spectroscopy to precisely analyze molecular components such as water vapor and sulfur dioxide in exoplanet atmospheres. The key to this analysis, where each ...

Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astronomers think it may have been an interloper from another galaxy

Infrared optoelectronic functional materials are essential for applications in lasers, photodetectors, and infrared imaging, forming the technological backbone of modern optoelectronics. Traditionally, the development of...

Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our common ancestor

New research shows that people perceive AI systems as more creative when they observe not just the final product, but also the creative process and the robot in action. In a set of controlled experiments using identical ...

Satellite data revealed that Houston is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S., and that all of the other biggest cities are dropping in at least some areas. Researchers say groundwater extraction is largely to blame for t...

While many research groups worldwide have been searching for dark matter over the past decades, detecting it has so far proved very challenging, thus very little is known about its possible composition and physical prope...

A team of researchers has developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable.

For the first time, scientists have mapped the 3D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, offering critical insights into how we perceive sweetness and why we crave sugar. This detailed map, created using cryo-elect...

A way to greatly enhance the efficiency of a method for correcting errors in quantum computers has been realized by theoretical physicists at RIKEN. This advance could help to develop larger, more reliable quantum comput...

The U.K. government is developing a program that seeks to identify murderers before they commit the ultimate crime. The real-world application of this type of tool will have devastating consequences.

A new study reveals that raising oxygen tension during weeks four to six of brain organoid development significantly promotes neurogenesis, guided by the oxygen-binding protein neuroglobin. Using cerebral organoids and c...

Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ghostly glow is cut off when we die