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The Pacific Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes known for explosive eruptions and intense earthquakes.

A new mouse study of spatial memory suggests that the brain's representation of places "drifts" over time.

A groundbreaking study has mapped the full neural circuit that carries cool temperature signals from the skin to the brain. The pathway begins with molecular sensors in the skin, which activate neurons that send signals ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the miniaturization and efficiency of electronic devices to waste-heat recovery syst...

A new study underscores a known link between planned C-sections and the risk of ALL, a childhood cancer. But overall, the risk is still very small, experts caution.

Healthy habits like exercising and eating well really do seem to improve cognitive decline, particularly if followed in a dedicated way

A new study suggests that recalling the context in which a memory was made can help to restore the memory after it has started to erode.

In 2024, an odd outbreak of THC intoxication hit more than 80 people in Wisconsin after a pizzeria accidentally used oil infused with the psychoactive ingredient.

A new brain imaging study reveals that how people expect pain relief--through visual cues or treatment explanations--can significantly influence how much pain they actually feel. External cues, like symbols signaling les...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers linked irregular sleep patterns to elevated risk for 172 diseases. Using objective sleep data from actigraphy devices worn by over 88,000 people for nearly seven years, the s...

An Australian zoo has recruited a puppy to help socialise a precious cheetah cub after she had to be separated from her mother, and the two have become firm friends

A pair of quantum experimenters that share two entangled particles may be able to pass some of that entanglement to other pairs - and keep sharing it again and again

As the demand for more secure data transmission increases, conventional communication technologies are facing limitations imposed by classical physics, and are therefore approaching their limits in terms of security. For...

Usually, light waves can pass through each other without any resistance. According to the laws of electrodynamics, two light beams can exist in the same place without influencing each other; they simply overlap. Light sa...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well understood and has been used for decades in accelerators and co...

A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a recently released paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the company outlines a method to tu...

A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute and collaborating institutions has developed a reliable method to create complex magnetic textures, known as skyrmion bags, in thin ferromagnetic films. Skyrmion bags are d...

Your circadian rhythm influences mood, metabolism and even how well you respond to medical treatment. Now we finally have the tools to harness it to help us live longer and feel better

Neutrinos are subatomic particles with no charge and very little mass that are known to weakly interact with other matter in the universe. Due to their weak interactions with other particles, these particles are notoriou...

Your circadian rhythm influences mood, metabolism and even how well you respond to medical treatment. Now we finally have the tools to harness it to help us live longer and feel better

Using 3D holograms polished by artificial intelligence, researchers introduce a lean, eyeglass-like 3D headset that they say is a significant step toward passing the "Visual Turing Test."

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of light. They also happen...