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A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power.

Researchers discovered that 168 common chemicals can disrupt the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, with some also promoting antibiotic resistance. Many of these substances-found in food, water, and household items-weren...

Researchers have solved the decades-old mystery behind how a common pregnancy drug lowers blood pressure. It turns out the medication blocks a fast-acting oxygen alarm inside cells. That same alarm helps brain tumors sur...

Scientists found that combining oxytocin with an Alk5 inhibitor revitalized extremely old male mice, boosting their lifespan and strength. Female mice showed only short-term improvements, highlighting a major sex differe...

Months after the one-and-done treatment, a three-year-old boy with Hunter syndrome is thriving. The post Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Transforms Life of Boy With Devastating Disorder appeared first on SingularityHub.

Scientists have uncovered a biological blueprint that shows how the brains smallest building blocks create the large networks that drive thought, emotion, and behavior. By combining brain imaging with genetic and molecul...

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

Researchers have made a major advance, discovering that a low-dose mixture of zinc, serine, and branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs) can successfully alleviate behavioral symptoms in three different mouse models of autism. T...

Today, the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago, the area was full of animals and ancient humans

New longitudinal research shows that Alzheimers disease blood biomarkers rise up to 95 percent faster in people with obesity than in those without. While baseline tests initially appeared lower due to blood dilution, lon...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, makes us question the very existence of time - and how much we can manipulate it

New research suggests that what humans experience as visual beauty may actually be rooted in energy efficiency. Images that require fewer neurons and less metabolic work to process are consistently rated as more aestheti...

A new type of sensor that levitates dozens of glass microparticles could revolutionize the accuracy and efficiency of sensing, laying the foundation for better autonomous vehicles, navigation and even the detection of da...

Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.

A research team at VTT MIKES has set a new record in optical-clock absolute frequency measurements using a strontium single-ion clock with exceptionally low uncertainty and high uptime.

A tiny device that entangles light and electrons without super-cooling could revolutionize quantum tech in cryptography, computing, and AI.

Is there any science to viral relationship tests like the bird test, the orange peel theory and the moon phase test? Emily Impett, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Toronto, has the ans...

Imagine standing on top of a mountain. From this vantage point, we can see picturesque valleys and majestic ridges below, and streams wind their way downhill. If a drop of rain falls somewhere on this terrain, gravity gu...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation is captured b...

Using sound to get objects to float works well if a single particle is levitated, but it causes multiple particles to collapse into a clump in mid-air. Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)...

Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness-something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this gene often develop ...