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Depression appears to change what children notice in the faces around them, but the effect depends on family history. Kids with a higher inherited risk became more focused on sadness, while lower-risk children lost some ...

Female mountain chickadees within monogamous pairings proactively cheat on their partners with males that exhibit superior spatial intelligence.

Diabetes and dementia appear to be closely intertwined, with each condition potentially influencing the other. Problems with insulin and glucose can affect the brains energy supply, increase inflammation, and damage bloo...

Vocal similarity, specifically "timbre," acts as an uncompromised biometric backdoor to human trust, explaining the devastating rise of AI imposter scams.

An injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit previously used as a kiln, and he may have been sacrificed.

On Wednesday (June 17), the moon will pass between Earth and Venus, causing the hellish planet to temporarily disappear from the daytime sky. Here's what it will look like, exactly when it is happening, and how you c...

Cellular senescence is required for the proper construction of the brain's protective barrier systems.

Researchers aim to discover if mindfulness practices can provide the cognitive scaffolding necessary to sustain the intense neuroplastic states and narrative deconstruction induced by psilocybin therapy.

Cleveland Clinic researchers are unlocking quantum computing's full potential through the creation of a new computing paradigm inspired by the human brain. Fabio Cumbo, Ph.D., research associate in the lab of Daniel ...

Amorphous materials such as glass are solids whose internal structure lacks a repeating pattern. Their molecules are arranged in a random and irregular way. Surprisingly, these disordered materials can "remember"...

Researchers revealed a novel transactional relationship between childhood depressive symptoms and visual attentional biases.

A new study has established a significant biological link between neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and a selective increased risk for specific malignancies.

NeurologistEmily Rogalskistudies "superagers"-people in their 80s or 90swithunusually keenmemories,whoselifestylessuggest ways to slow cognitive decline

An area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming.

Experimental atomic physicists have discovered there is a maximum amount of electrical resistance, or resistivity, that can result from collisions between electrons.

The remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found off the coast of the Philippines island of Luzon.

Certain substances can become magnetic when exposed to an external magnetic field. Magnetic susceptibility measures how easily a material can be magnetized. Materials known as organic radicals have been noted to possess ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has placed the strongest constraints yet on certain rare decays of subatomic particles, narrowing the window for where new "hidden" particles could be lurking.

ESA astronaut John McFall tells Live Science what it would mean to become the first physically disabled person in space - if he travels to the first-ever commercial space station next year - and how life in orbit might a...

By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that could lead to even more precise clocks and new ways to search for dark matter.

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not be impossible. If we can tame it, it could unlock whole new types of matter

The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.