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A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the journey and end up ...

Researchers defined "chronoferroptosis," a progressive, time-dependent iron accumulation pathway that systematically depletes antioxidant defenses and strips aging neurons of their resilience against neurodegener...

Researchers established that canine cognitive decline is directly associated with a shortened stride length in dogs' front limbs. Because thoracic limbs require heavy cortical control for balance and spatial awarenes...

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Jinglei from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that the trilayer nickelate La4Ni3O10- exhibits a nearly isotropic upper critical field under high ...

A structural biology study utilizing cryo-electron microscopy has resolved the first 3D structure of human blue and green cone opsins in their dark state, revealing that an open binding pocket in green opsins allows rapi...

A new study outlines the biological role of TREM-1 as a master upstream amplifier of innate immunity, highlighting its synergy with Toll-like receptors and its emergence as a high-value therapeutic target for stopping ac...

Researchers have developed light-transmitting hydrogel fibers that are just hundreds of micrometers in diameter. With further development, these soft fibers could one day make it possible to use imaging techniques to det...

Researchers identified a new form of programmed cell death called karyoptosis, driven by the interaction of p38 MAP kinase and LaminB1, which causes nuclear disintegration in 35% of Alzheimer's frontal cortex neurons...

Growing numbers of homeowners are installing batteries that store electricity when it is cheap, which helps balance the grid and cuts emissions, and cheaper plug-in batteries will soon let more people do the same

In an international experiment, researchers observed Jahn-Teller polarons-quasiparticles that could play an important role in future ultrafast spintronic devices. These polarons emerged within the crystal lattice of coba...

Chiral 2D metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are among the most promising materials for future technologies that exploit the spin of electrons in spin-based optoelectronics, or spintronics, but getting them to perform consi...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human body

The loss of Antarcticas doomsday glacier would transform our planet. Now scientists are revealing the secrets of this remotest of places, and asking the question: is its demise inevitable?

It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins twist into sh...

Companies once moved whole factories overseas to reduce labor costs. Now, workers a world away can operate local excavators, forklifts, and even humanoid robots with an internet connection. The post Companies Could Soon ...

This August a total solar eclipse is set to be visible across parts of Europe, while a partial eclipse will sweep across about a quarter of the planet - heres how to catch it

Scientists have developed a new type of "virtual" metasurface-capable of controlling light in ways traditional lenses and optics can't-which they say is superior to the current approach, which relies on ultra...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isnt the new normal - much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics-from magnetism and superconductivity to topological states. Yet the complexity of such systems makes many of thei...

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct microscopic structures.

IBM's NanoStack architecture has helped scientists cram 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip, delivering 50% better performance and consuming 70% less energy than the current generation.