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A near miss with a Waymo while cycling through London hasn't changed my optimistic stance on driverless cars, but we can't ever let our guard down, says Matthew Sparkes

Researchers have discovered a "megasite" of dead whales along with new species of marine life feasting on the corpses.

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) now affects nearly 1 in 7 Canadian adults, marking a 71% surge since 2002.

A new study introduces "Hetairos," an AI system designed to predict brain tumor molecular classifications from routine histological sections.

Emerging tests promise to screen for many cancers at once, but one just failed in a big trial. Will these diagnostics deliver on their promise someday?

Pregnant women's expectations about postpartum sleep predict their actual sleep quality after delivery, completely outweighing prior sleep disorders, birth history, and psychiatric history.

A new study demonstrates that childhood maltreatment alters the interaction between fear-related brain function and systemic inflammation.

A visit to Kew Gardens exhibit of the sculptors work is a fascinating insight into how he was inspired by nature

With its origins in a creepy image posted on 4chan, Backrooms is an unusually potent big-screen experiment in fear and perception, says Davide Abbatescianni

Feedback is alarmed by a study that explored how funny people think they are, and that discovered certain traits in those who rate themselves the most humorous

Researchers suggesting that the keto diet could treat mental health conditions find themselves uncomfortably aligned with people like vaccine-sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr, but that is not a reason to reject the idea

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall

The GLP-1 agonist liraglutide treats depressive symptoms via a novel microbial pathway.

A new study reveals a significant link between blood plasma vitamin C levels, gray matter volume, and neural network connectivity.

New drugs are taking on the slippery molecular switches that fuel deadly cancers-and AI is speeding up the hunt. The post After Decades of Failure, Undruggable Cancers Begin to Give Way appeared first on SingularityHub.

Individuals assign distinct financial values to their sleep, shaped by age, income, and personal attitudes.

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.

A new study reveals that a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with an elevated risk of brain cancer mortality.

Europes largest land animal, the bison, is thought to be relatively unthreatened by predators, but footage from Biaowiea Primaeval Forest in Poland shows it does face attacks from wolves

Scientists have uploaded a viral genome to a quantum computer, marking an important step for the future of quantum-enabled advancements in biology.

A new study has synchronized electroencephalography (EEG) with millisecond-accurate eye-tracking to record fixation-related potentials (FRPs) in programmers.

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science