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What would it take to instantly transform a material from an electrical insulator into a conductive state without ever touching it? Using ultrafast laser pulses and powerful X-rays, scientists at the National Synchrotron...

Beneath our feet lies a vast hidden fungal superhighway that helps sustain much of life on Earth-and scientists have now mapped it for the first time. Researchers estimate that these underground networks stretch an aston...

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. The post Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore t...

The villa, which came to light because it was illegally excavated, was found in an area frequented two millennia ago by the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

Household cohabitation serves as the definitive engine for strain-level oral and gut microbiome alignment, completely independent of genetic kinship.

A new study demonstrates that 18% of college students use generative AI for mental health support, with usage rates doubling among students suffering from severe anxiety, depression, and suicidality.

A new report outlines a critical, person-centered framework to manage Alzheimer's-related psychosis without relying on high-risk sedatives.

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 million years ago - 20 million years before the Andes.

An adult's language learning velocity and ultimate success are predicted by the baseline organization of their attention and cognitive control networks.

A man went to hospital complaining about weakness in his left leg, and subsequent brain scans revealed his abnormally small brain.

The silver in a Viking Age hoard found in Denmark was from melted-down coins from the faraway Islamic world, a new study finds.

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how it got started

IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directed to an egg while getting around the need for invasive egg retrievals and embryo transfers

Obesity-induced memory loss and natural age-related cognitive decline share an identical pathological pathway inside the brain.

Researchers have filmed goblin sharks in the deep sea for the first time. Until now, these sharks had been seen alive only after being hauled up to the surface with fishing lines.

Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and learn to carry out any task independently

China is building a dam system that will generate more hydroelectric power than the U.S. generates yearly. But the project comes with huge risks for people downstream.

Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the cloud in 2028, which will require a real leap in engineering

Trinity's Prof. Stefan Sint, along with collaborators from Germany, Spain and Italy, has published the most precise determination to date of the strong coupling constant. This parameter governs the interactions betwe...

Antarctica was long thought to be seismically calm, but new technology makes it possible to detect unexpected types of earthquakes beneath the ice.

A meteorite shows evidence that an ancient crash on the moon 3.5 billion years ago was so powerful, it turned the surface molten.

Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist Leah Crane