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An international initiative establishes the first consensus framework for vocal biomarkers, creating standardized definitions to accelerate voice-based disease diagnostics.

Focused ultrasound effectively opens the blood-brain barrier in gliomas, proving that brain tumors are highly receptive to targeted, size-optimized drug delivery.

A new study demonstrates that psilocybin-assisted therapy is safe and achieves a 75% remission rate in veterans with severe, treatment-resistant PTSD.

A new method of analyzing modern humans' DNA is revealing secrets about our extinct ancestors.

Learning relies on refining the strength of existing connections rather than building new neural pathways, pointing to a shared computational principle in human and artificial intelligence.

An international team of researchers from École Polytechnique, Collège de France and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has achieved a world first: the experimental realization of an all-optical photonic time ...

Controlled breathing interventions significantly reduce substance cravings across alcohol, nicotine, opioids, and stimulants, offering a scalable adjunct to standard addiction therapies.

Animal-borne cameras have revealed that the world's largest fish spends far more time feeding below the surface than scientists realized.

A new study reveals that mice pay a physical reward cost to gain advance information, driven by a distinct population of orbitofrontal cortex neurons that encode the intrinsic value of knowledge.

We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost ghost ancestor inside us - and by putting all the different bits together, we might be able to reconstruct their genome

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular evidence that the virus was brought to the Americas from Europe

Ancient DNA from Chilean mummies is the first ever molecular evidence that European colonizers brought smallpox to the Americas, decimating Indigenous populations.

Two newly discovered bird carvings reveal early humans' keen eye for artistry in the ice age world 40,000 years ago.

Researchers found that vesper bats use two separate sets of genes to build antibodies - a rare evolutionary quirk that may give them different ways to fight infection.

Researchers have developed and tested an infrared spectroscopy system that can rapidly detect chemical aerosols from a distance by using light reflected from common surfaces such as traffic signs, tree trunks or painted ...

Large-scale quantum communication networks require both reliable quantum memories and coherent single-photon sources that can exchange quantum information efficiently. A coherent source of single photons with narrow line...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have demonstrated a new way of switching a material between two fundamentally different magnetic states using an electric current. The discovery could pave the way fo...

How does the brain learn? Does it acquire new knowledge by creating new neural pathways or by strengthening existing connections? A new study from Bar-Ilan University offers evidence in favor of the latter, suggesting th...

Genetic tests of mammoth remains have found a stark contrast in the sex ratio between sites where the animals died naturally and those associated with humans, offering hints about how our ancestors hunted

A tiny sensor that unfolds within the body could continuously monitor our heart activity and breathing after showing promise in rats

For years, researchers have tried to harness the "twist" of light to transmit data. This property describes how light spirals as it travels forward, and because it can be molded into a virtually infinite number o...

A new study in Nature Communications has established a link between the Riemann Hypothesis and dynamical phase transitions in engineered quantum systems, demonstrating the effect on a quantum processor.