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Reengineered, the powdery stuff could become a range of eco-friendly objects.

Scientists are racing to improve weight loss treatments beyond drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, which are effective but plagued by nausea, bone loss, and weight regain. Tufts University chemists have created a new multi-ta...

Researchers have uncovered why smell often fades early in Alzheimers: the brains immune cells dismantle key nerve connections between the olfactory bulb and brainstem. Membrane changes in neurons send an eat-me signal to...

People who do several very short bouts of strenuous activity each day are much less likely to die in the next few years than those who do no exercise at all

Scientists used non-invasive MRI to study shrews that seasonally shrink and regrow their brains, uncovering water loss as the key driver of this rare phenomenon. Despite losing about nine percent of their brain volume in...

Researchers have created a noninvasive brain-computer interface enhanced with artificial intelligence, enabling users to control a robotic arm or cursor with greater accuracy and speed. The system translates brain signal...

Depression specifically impairs the ability to learn how to actively avoid unpleasant events, though it does not affect avoidance behavior once learned. Researchers tested 465 participants across a range of depressive sy...

You can feast guilt-free on farmed oysters and mussels as their production can have environmental benefits - but those probably don't include capturing carbon

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea thats gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon called quantum tunneling....

They may be small, but these accessories can make a big difference to your photography - and they won't break the bank.

Ferroelectrics are seen as promising candidates for the electronics of tomorrow. An experiment at the world's largest X-ray laser-the European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg-now shows that their properties can be co...

In turbulent fluids, mixing of the components happens easily. However, in more viscous fluids such as those enclosed within cellular compartments, the intermixing of particles and molecules is much more challenging. As t...

Authors including literary heavyweight Ian McEwan and big hitters John Scalzi, Yume Kitasei and Cixin Liu have new sci-fi novels out this month

Fossilized bones in Brazil reveal that deadly infections plagued sauropods 80 million years ago. Researchers uncovered unhealed lesions consistent with osteomyelitis, pointing to pathogens spread through stagnant waters ...

A new study projects that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)-the system of currents that includes the Gulf Stream-could shut down after 2100 under high-emission scenarios. This shutdown would drastica...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft sometimes lies directly between the sun and Earth, making it ideally placed to analyse powerful solar storms that could damage electronic systems on our planet

Two cylindrical clay sculptures may represent dancers who performed at a funeral 1,500 years ago.

Sargassum has escaped the Sargasso Sea and exploded across the Atlantic, forming the massive Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. Fueled by nutrient runoff, Amazon outflows, and climate events, these blooms now reshape ecosyst...

Our genomes are peppered with DNA segments called retrotransposons that can move from place to place. When unleashed, some can kill nerves and promote inflammation - a discovery that may inspire treatments for neurodegen...

One country's unique climate keeps it a mosquito-free zone, but global warming may change that.

A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major technological implications whil...