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Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created a remarkable new material that works like a rechargeable solar battery, storing sunlight inside tiny molecules and releasing it later as heat - even long after the sun goes dow...

Colorectal cancer is increasingly showing up in younger adults, with cases now appearing in people as young as their thirties - often with no family history or warning signs. A major Swiss study analyzing nearly 100,000 ...

The study identified "gene expression gradients", overlapping chemical signals that give every brain region a unique molecular ID.

Researchers found that NSAIDs (like ibuprofen, naproxen, and diclofenac) taken during the first trimester are NOT associated with an increased risk of major birth defects.

We often assume that a higher IQ leads to better social outcomes, like being more trusting and cooperative. But new research suggests that your childhood environment might be the "volume knob" for that advantage....

Researchers mapped the organizational "rules" of the visual cortex, revealing that synaptic inputs are meticulously arranged by distance, local clustering, and stimulus selectivity. By imaging the "glow" ...

Researchers have created transparent, flexible contact lenses that treat depression using "temporal interference" electrical stimulation. In a landmark study, the lenses restored brain connectivity and boosted se...

A new study explains how physical exertion alters vocal pitch, timing, and stability, impacting speech recognition and the "talk test".

Is anxiety an immune response? New research reveals that Hoxb8 microglia, specialized immune cells in the brain, use calcium signaling to switch anxiety and grooming behaviors on and off.

The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women - and some find irritating - is actually more common in men

A pill called ensitrelvir is the first drug shown to effectively reduce infection after exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

Near-infrared light is invisible to humans. And yet, under the right conditions, the human eye can perceive it. Researchers from Poland's International Center for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) have now shown tha...

Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them instead will trap the carbon underground for centuries

What use is a quantum computer? Perhaps both more and less than you think, according to quantum computing expert Shayan Majidy

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up. You might think you ...

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum - and scientists warn it c...

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum - and scientists warn it c...

Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, dont work as well as we get older, but giving them an artificial boost could rejuvenate them

The Dreame FP10 excels at removing hair, pet dander and bad odors, all without making excessive noise or requiring never-ending filter maintenance.

A daily multivitamin may help slow biological aging, according to researchers studying older adults in a large clinical trial. After two years, participants taking multivitamins showed slower aging in several DNA-based e...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the worlds first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from. Using the DAMPE space telescope, researchers found tha...