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A new eco-friendly technology can capture and destroy PFAS, the dangerous forever chemicals found worldwide in water. The material works hundreds to thousands of times faster and more efficiently than current filters, ev...

A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain t...

A new study suggests temporal lobe epilepsy may be linked to early aging of certain brain cells. When researchers removed these aging cells in mice, seizures dropped, memory improved, and some animals avoided epilepsy al...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.

The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in biophotons, a mysterious phenomenon that could have applications in agriculture

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Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids could one day feel pain or become conscious-and how would we know? The post Five-Year-Old Mini Brains Can Now Mimic a Kindergarteners Neural Wiring. Its Time to...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed pachycephalosaur and one of the most heavily armoured creatures that ever lived

Tramadol, a popular opioid often seen as a safer painkiller, may not live up to its reputation. A large analysis of clinical trials found that while it does reduce chronic pain, the relief is modest-so small that many pa...

Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely-and more dangerous. These regions, especially near the Philippines and the Caribbean, are expanding as climate change war...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for students and researchers with limited funding

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for students and researchers with limited funding

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But after the waves, there comes a second reverberation-a murmur that physicists have theorized but ne...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light-years away and is f...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration-or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites that naturally fall to...

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the dislocation and danger of ancient Judea - as they are in todays fractured world too.