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Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy as a way to reset the immune system in lupus, Graves disease, and other conditions where the bodys defenses go rogue. The post A Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Could Transform A...

An analysis of residue on centuries-old surgical tools reveals the use of a toxic anesthetic in Ming dynasty-era Chinese medicine.

Does frequent contact keep an isolated crew unified, or does it accelerate mental burnout? A behavioral study tracking a 10-month overwintering mission at Antarcticas Concordia Station reveals that constant physical prox...

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) directly pairs with and enhances the human motor system during active movement.

People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, trust and concern for others

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time

Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers were able to sw...

Can laughter and play do their most brilliant work at a molecular level to accelerate human learning? A new developmental study reveals that laughter is a complex biological phenomenon that fundamentally rewires early br...

A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' assumptions, the conjecture would imply possible alterations to the hyperfine structure and effective...

New research led by a graduating Ph.D. student in The University of New Mexico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has shown that randomization can improve quantum computer performance in the presence of no...

Many solid materials "remember" their past. A piece of metal may respond differently after being stretched, heated, or cooled, and memory materials rely precisely on this kind of history-dependent behavior. This ...

For two decades, physicists have predicted the existence of a remarkable family of exotic molecules: giant atoms bound to ordinary atoms, with an electron so distant from its nucleus that it sculpts the pair into bizarre...

Solar panels have become more efficient over the years, but even the best designs still lose a large fraction of the energy they absorb. Scientists around the world have been searching for ways to capture more energy fro...

When a singer belts out a tune while a guitar player strums along, sound waves travel through the air, driving collective oscillations of the molecules within. Meanwhile, at the quantum level, something similar is going ...

Scientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma

In the age of AI, instant answers to our questions are readily available. But columnist Helen Thomson finds that continuing to encourage those delicious flashes of insight that come from your own thoughts may be benefici...

This funerary shroud was made from thousands of multicolored beads and woven to represent a human face and a large scarab beetle.

The largest moon in the solar system - Jupiters Ganymede - has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

New NIH research reveals that semaglutide sparks different responses inside appetite-controlling brain cells, offering fresh insight into why GLP-1 weight-loss drugs dont work the same for everyone. Scientists also found...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move out of the water. U...

When running an AI model through a quantum computer, scientists have increased accuracy by only adding a relatively small number of parameters.