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Scientists discover how psychological stress reactivates arthritis flares via a sympathetic nerve-brown fat axis that sends IL-6 to dormant joints.

Useful quantum computers will have to use many logical qubits as their computational building blocks, and researchers just broke the record for how reliable they can be

Petal, the world's first petabit transoceanic fiber cable, could theoretically support simultaneous music streaming for 75% of the world's population.

If youre trying to avoid the worst of cold and flu season, looking after your mind can help shape your immune system, finds columnist David Robson

In a very rare case, a fetus developed cancer in the uterus, and these tumour cells spread to her twin sister

A sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with Roman and Anglo-Saxon decorations baffled archaeologists, but now a 150-year-old mystery has finally been solved.

Researchers propose a new subtype of depression linked to body-clock patterns.

Tesla just demonstrated a type of hover car. Live Science asks its readers whether they believe this type of technology will be widely available in five years.

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The post Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial a...

Generative AI can create masterpieces in seconds, but a new analysis reveals it breaks the crucial link between making art and personal growth. Hebrew University's Amit Zoran argues that the future of creativity belo...

Surviving sepsis often leaves patients with lasting memory deficits. Researchers discovered that peripheral macrophages infiltrate the hippocampus during acute infection, establish lifelong residency, and signal microgli...

Transmitting electricity without losing any energy may sound impossible, yet this is precisely the promise of superconductivity. For nearly 40 years, scientists have been working to understand materials that exhibit this...

New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing oxygen nuclei together at nearly the speed of light generates a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a type of...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a supernova erupting just 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Direct analysis of living human hippocampal tissue reveals that an overabundance of abnormal immature astroglia tracks with poorer fluid intelligence. The discovery identifies non-neuronal support cells as a novel therap...

Superconductivity has many important practical applications, including creating powerful magnets used in high-resolution medical scans, transporting electricity efficiently and building ultrasensitive measuring devices. ...

Pregnant women who develop restless legs syndrome during their third trimester face three times the risk of perinatal depression compared to those without the sleep movement disorder. A study of over 2,400 mothers highli...

Experts argue that the mysterious Voynich manuscript was incorrectly bound - a discovery that "moves the ball" in finally deciphering the 15th-century document.

Most conventional methods of ultrafast photography use evenly spaced intervals in which images are taken, but new developments have shown how much can be left out of the story, especially when multiple timescales are inv...

Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can transmit infections such as dengue

Simon Baron-Cohens influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of autism, has his perspective changed?

There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tackling mathematical problems - and now some mathematicians are opting to avoid AI altogether