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Researchers have developed a retinal prosthesis made of tellurium nanowires that restores partial vision in blind mice and enables near-infrared vision in primates. The implant, woven into a lattice of light-sensitive na...

The brain's ventral tegmental area (VTA) encodes not only the value of anticipated rewards but also the precise timing of when those rewards are expected. Long known for its role in producing dopamine and guiding reward ...

Neurosymbolic AI combines the learning of LLMs with teaching the machine formal rules that should make them more reliable and energy efficient.

An AI analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include texts from the Hebrew Bible, could mean they were composed earlier than experts thought.

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Researchers have discovered that the mouse brain can simultaneously encode multiple hypotheses about its spatial location while navigating environments with ambiguous landmarks. In a complex task requiring mice to distin...

The brain quickly adapts to change by predicting multiple futures, neuron by neuron. These finding could lead to AI that can do the same thing. The post This Brain Discovery Could Unlock AI’s Ability to See the Future ...

Co-packaged optics (CPO) technology can integrate photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with electronic integrated circuits (EICs) like CPUs and GPUs on a single platform. This advanced technology has immense potential to ...

When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies, he bypassed standard protocols and set the stage for future vaccine rollbacks

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope--protactinium-210--for the first time. It is the most neutron-deficient iso...

The trove of papers from pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing was discovered in a loft.

According to new research, the active volcano that sits west of Naples has a "tuff" layer about two miles beneath the surface that traps volcanic gases deep below the caldera's floor.

A new study finds that patients with insomnia often retain accurate sleep-wake perception and intact regulatory systems, despite feeling as though they sleep poorly. Using serial awakenings during sleep lab monitoring, r...

Researchers have identified three anti-aging compounds produced by Paracoccus sanguinis, a bacterium found in the bloodstream. These indole-based metabolites reduced inflammation and oxidative stress in human skin cell c...

A new twin study has identified specific gut bacteria that may contribute to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), the most common inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. By comparing identical twins wh...

A research team led by Prof. Yong Gaochan from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel experimental method to probe the hyperon potential, offering new insights into ...

A war of words between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump could lead to significant fallout for U.S.-led space exploration.

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions -- one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.

When placed under a powerful laser field (i.e., under strong-field ionization), electrons can temporarily cross the so-called quantum tunneling barrier, an energy barrier that they would typically be unable to overcome. ...