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People with irritable bowel syndrome are often only given treatments like cognitive behavioural therapy after others have failed, but research suggests this approach is more effective than we thought

The newly discovered ichthyosaur dubbed Xiphodracon goldencapsis was about 10 feet long and had a sword-shaped snout.

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USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than relying on switches, light organizes itself much like particles in a gas reaching equilibrium. The...

A philosophy scholar has developed a practical decision tree to help scientists and ethicists evaluate which creatures may be conscious.

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special critical point - researchers are now getting a clearer picture of when that point is reached

Researchers have identified a rare type of brain cell that may drive the chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration seen in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). These cells, called disease-associated radial glia-like (DA...

China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 - but is this going to cut it? Tell us what you think.

After damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extreme weather records in the U.S., data show - and experts say this trend is likely to continue.

Applying a daily serum that contains extracts of a tropical plant improved hair density and strand thickness in just 56 days

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities may have led to our vulnerability to mental illness

Ferroic materials such as ferromagnets and ferroelectrics underpin modern data storage, yet face limits: They switch slowly, or suffer from unstable polarization due to depolarizing fields respectively. A new class, ferr...

A research team led by Prof. Lin Yiheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with Prof. Yuan Haidong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, succeeded in generating multipartite ...

The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively murky waters appear to shield it against climate change - for now.

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the arrangement of the mol...

Changing interactions between the smallest particles at the touch of a button: Quantum researchers at RPTU have developed a new tool that makes this possible. The new approach-a temporally oscillating magnetic field-has ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate - a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular tools that rewrite DNA, th...

One of the key steps in developing new materials is property identification, which has long relied on massive amounts of experimental data and expensive equipment, limiting research efficiency. A KAIST research team has ...

Light is fast, but travels in long wavelengths and interacts weakly with itself. The particles that make up matter are tiny and interact strongly with each other, but move slowly. Together, the two can combine into a hyb...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earths climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planets history. European scientists are uniting to honor them with I...

Chinas Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease underscores how clima...

Quantum defects are tiny imperfections in solid crystal lattices that can trap individual electrons and their "spin" (i.e., the internal angular momentum of particles). These defects are central to the functionin...