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Researchers have created self-destructing living plastic that uses engineered bacteria to completely break itself down when activated. The material degrades in just six days without creating microplastics, offering a pot...

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. The post Is AI Making Us Dumb...

A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastomas toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier. Researchers used sugar-coated nanoparticles to ferry genetic instructions that restore a key tumor-su...

Age-related multi-organ decline is driven by an EP2-receptor-mediated failure of tissue-resident macrophages to clear senescent neutrophils.

An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record.

A new study utilizes a novel PET radiotracer to provide the first in vivo evidence of widespread muscarinic acetylcholine M1 receptor deficits in living schizophrenia patients.

A new study demonstrates that the human brain can simultaneously process two competing conversations during attentional shifts.

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case - not with a radical ne...

A new study demonstrates that altered aperiodic background signals on high-density 128-channel EEGs correlate with functional communication challenges in autistic youth.

Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories.

A new study demonstrates that non-painful thermal perception is governed by a single population of bidirectional neurons rather than separate warm and cool receptors.

In a single experiment, physicists have measured the "excess" emission of high-energy gamma rays from more than a dozen heavy, unstable atomic nuclei. Mapping the gamma-ray emissions of so many isotopes produced ...

Branched O-mannose glycans synthesized by the brain-specific enzyme MGAT5B are essential for maintaining the narrow architecture of the nodes of Ranvier.

A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.

Keith Thomas, 48, has paralysis, but brain stimulation gave him some feeling and movement in his hands - and this was maintained even when the stimulation was turned off

Astronomers have only previously found atmospheres around exoplanets that are very large or incredibly hot - but now they have found one adorning a world that may well be right for life

Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crat...

A new kind of antibody drug that more efficiently enters the brain could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease with a much lower risk of dangerous side effects than existing therapies

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create chilled molecules containing the radioactive element radium. The resulting laboratory concoctions, generated in part through steps similar to those used to m...

Superconducting technologies have the potential to supercharge the decarbonization of transport, saving gigatonnes of emissions in the future, a landmark new paper suggests.

Graphene has long been regarded as one of the most promising materials for future electronics, but its relatively weak electron interactions have limited its potential for applications such as high-temperature supercondu...

Researchers from the University of Basel have published details of how electrons within a cluster of molecules interact with one another and can be controlled. Their findings pave the way for new approaches to developing...