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South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earths mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts infiltrated reduced rocks...

Gifted dogs can categorize toys by function, not just appearance. In playful at-home tests, they linked labels like fetch and pull to toys-even ones theyd never seen before. The findings hint that dogs form mental concep...

The AI is designed from the bottom up to prevent privacy breaches. The post Googles VaultGemma AI Hoovers Up Your Data-Without Memorizing It appeared first on SingularityHub.

Scientific evidence is lacking to support the US governments decisions to caution against using a common painkiller in pregnancy and fast-track the approval of an experimental medication for autism

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists probe the logistics of destroying it - possibly with nuclear weapons - before it comes too ...

Archaeologists already knew that adult Maya had tooth inlays, but this is some of the first evidence that children also had tooth bling.

Millions across China are under evacuation or stay-at-home orders as the storm closes in on the country's southern coast.

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons has revealed a surprising number of differences, suggesting that the structure of the brain alone...

A new study shows that our brains attention system first prepares broadly, then zooms in on specific details within fractions of a second. Using EEG and machine learning, researchers tracked how people focused on either ...

A new clinical trial suggests stem cell therapy may restore vision in people with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration, a disease that currently has no cure. Researchers transplanted retinal pigment epithelial s...

New research shows that slow oscillations in the brain, which occur during deep sleep and anesthesia, are guided by neuronal excitability rather than structural anatomy. Using computational models and experiments in mice...

A fossil from about 66 million years ago reveals a species of dinosaur that is new to science, with claws that would have ripped through its prey's flesh

Although narcissistic personality disorder is rarer than you might think, psychological research suggests it can come in two different types, one of which may be underdiagnosed

New research reveals that cleaner air may protect childrens eyesight and help slow the rise of myopia, especially in younger children. Using machine learning, scientists found that children living in less polluted areas ...

Summary: Researchers uncovered a new subtype of hypothalamic neurons, called Crabp1 neurons, that serve as powerful regulators of energy expenditure. Silencing these cells lowered activity, temperature, and fat burning, ...

A research team has successfully developed a self-locked Raman-electro-optic (REO) microcomb on a single lithium niobate chip. By synergistically harnessing the electro-optic (EO), Kerr, and Raman effects within one micr...

The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said.

A new study shows that the brain benefits of exercise may be partly replicated with an IV infusion of lactate, the by-product of intense physical activity. Researchers found that such infusions increased pro-BDNF levels ...

Speedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.

A new study overturns the traditional view that the brain solely directs male sexual behavior while the spinal cord executes ejaculation. Researchers identified Galanin-expressing spinal neurons that both drive ejaculati...

In a study published in Reports on Progress in Physics, researchers have achieved device-independent characterization of genuinely entangled subspaces (GESs) in both optical and superconducting quantum systems, completin...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physica...