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A deadly fungus has wiped out amphibian populations around the globe, yet some mysteriously recover. Researchers discovered that survivors develop powerful immune defenses while they are still tadpoles, giving them a hea...

Chimpanzees showed a remarkable attraction to crystals, choosing them over ordinary stones and studying them with intense curiosity. The results suggest that the same unusual features may have fascinated early humans lon...

A new study introduces BINND, a deep learning model designed to predict complex, non-complementary DNA-DNA binding interactions.

A new study reveals that evening chronotypes (night owls) experience significantly higher body fat percentages, visceral adiposity, elevated blood glucose, and poorer lipid profiles compared to morning types.

Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material lasts longer in hot climates than was previously thought.

Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could preserve the DNA for decades until we need it, an expert said.

A new study found that chewing sugary gum after eating nitrate-rich vegetables or drinking beetroot juice helped the body produce more beneficial nitrite, leading to a temporary drop in blood pressure. Researchers hope t...

A new study reveals that childhood amygdala reactivity to emotional faces isolates future social health profiles two years later.

A new study demonstrates that a specialized oral THC/CBD medical oil formulation significantly and rapidly reduces end-of-life agitation in late-stage dementia patients.

A new study utilizes Koopman operator learning to prove that certain complex, chaotic systems have fundamental predictability limits that cannot be overcome by infinite training data.

A new study reveals that poor sleep alters brain network connectivity differently across the adult lifespan.

Researchers identifies a slight statistical association between GLP-1 receptor agonists (including semaglutide and tirzepatide) and an increased risk of ischemic optic neuropathy.

The research reveals widespread synaptic loss across frontal, temporal, and emotional hubs, heavily favoring the brain's left hemisphere, independent of macro-structural MRI volume changes.

Researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have developed a new method for trapping and controlling atoms near an ultrathin glass fiber. This has significantly improved the atoms' ability to store quantum informa...

Cutting back on our use of energy and materials so that we live within Earths means can seem like an insurmountable challenge. But after a decade grappling with these problems, a historic Portuguese city is beginning to ...

Marine bristle worms have jaws made from a mix of proteins and metal ions that may constitute a whole new kind of material, with possible applications in engineering

In some parts of the world, the probability of rain rises with every day it doesnt rain, and communities in these places are more likely to carry out rain-making rituals

Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have developed the world's first achromatic lens for neutron imaging. The lens overcomes a longstanding obstacle in the field: focusing neutrons of different wavelengths w...

Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau have achieved a key experimental breakthrough: For the first time, the spontaneous macroscopic coherence of magnons-the quantized excitations of magnetic materials-has...

Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with a shrug of the shoulders - what changed?

Future quantum computing will require correlations between distant modules-a feature known as distributed entanglement. Traditionally, such entanglement has relied on active control and repeated measurements. Now, physic...

When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff were made of to hang together