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Darwin Monkey or 'Wukong' features over 2 billion artificial neurons and more than 100 billion synapses - similar to the neural structure of a macaque.

Social media platforms will soon have to exclude children under 16 in Australia, but there are doubts over how age verification tools will work - and whether this is the right approach to deal with online harms

Formaldehyde-free hair-straightening products have been marketed as a safer option, but they may pose a risk to kidney health, a case series suggests.

In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula - the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.

The current hurricane classification does not consider storm surge and rainfall risks, which cause almost 80% of hurricane-related deaths. A new scale could help people better prepare for storms.

Autobiographical memory allows us to relive experiences, form identity, and project into the future. A rare few, known as hyperthymesics, can recall events from their lives with remarkable precision, linking them to spec...

Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervical cancer screening, but urine tests seem to work just as well

Surgeons have performed the worlds first anterior cervical spine surgery using a fully personalized implant designed for a patients unique anatomy. Unlike standard one-size-fits-all devices, the new implant was created w...

Eczema can be very distressing for children - and now it seems that its roots may at least partly lie in their mothers experiencing high levels of stress during pregnancy

The lung survived nine days but also whipped up an immune response. It's hoped pig organs could one day ease the donor organ shortage. The post In a First, Scientists Transplant a Modified Pig Lung Into a Person appe...

More affordable than a Fenix 8 and brighter too: Whats not to like? This is a top running and triathlon watch.

Researchers have discovered that people with Alzheimers show unusually high neural flexibility-the constant reorganizing of brain networks-even while resting. In a large study of older adults, higher neural flexibility i...

Researchers analyzing post-mortem brain tissue found two cell types altered in people with depression: excitatory neurons that regulate mood and stress, and microglia that manage inflammation. The findings highlight how ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly," Sun said. "My interests ar...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

A giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE) has been observed in a nonmagnetic material for the first time, as reported by researchers from Japan. This surprising result was achieved using high-quality Cd3As2 thin films, a Dirac...

A new study shows that the brain uses two distinct mechanisms to drive exploration under uncertainty. Recording single-neuron activity during a learning task, researchers found that amygdala and temporal cortex neurons m...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers today'...

In everyday life, all matter exists as either a gas, liquid, or solid. In quantum mechanics, however, it is possible for two distinct states to exist simultaneously. An ultracold quantum system, for instance, can exhibit...

Adolescence is a critical period for the brains frontal cortex, where executive functions mature and vulnerabilities to psychiatric disorders emerge. A new study shows that microglia, the brains immune cells, directly sh...

Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide range of different qubits, even in large numbers.

A new large-scale study finds that the long-observed unhappiness hump, where mental distress peaked in midlife, has disappeared. Instead, younger people now report the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, w...