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Healing through imagination. Researchers prove that "rescripting" painful childhood memories with a supportive defender can permanently lower the fear of failure in adults.

Scientists discover that the adult brain proactiveley remodels its "sensory filter" to achieve high-definition perception, overturning decades of fixed-circuit theory.

A high-precision study reveals that the most common tau PET tracer also reacts to iron and brain inflammation, providing a new guide for accurate diagnosis.

A new project allowed AI chatbots to interrupt, stay silent or speak up the way humans do in conversation, and it made them smarter and more accurate.

Computing Breaking Encryption With a Quantum Computer Just Got 10 Times EasierKarmela Padavic-Callaghan | New Scientist ($) In 2019, Craig Gidney at Google Quantum AI co-authored a paper that reduced The post This Weeks ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature - a strategy called heterothermy - and outlast storms, floods and predators.

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed proto-writing in the Stone Age.

Quantum technologies, computers or other devices that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, rely on the precise control of light and matter. Over the past decades, quantum physicists and material scientists have...

Scientists have built a massive cellular atlas showing how aging reshapes the body across 21 organs. Studying nearly 7 million cells, they found that aging starts earlier than expected and unfolds in a coordinated way th...

An 11th-century Norse coin found in Maine raises the question of whether the Vikings landed there.

A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica reveal that meltwater...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils dont appear until much later. By analyzing hundreds of genes...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial protein called MurJ, whi...

Scientists at Texas A&M are turning an everyday pick-me-up into a high-tech medical switch. By combining caffeine with CRISPR gene editing, researchers have created a system that allows cells to be programmed in advance ...

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium caseinate with starc...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biologys most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear stop signal, this methane-producing archaeon sometimes rea...