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Scientists have finally confirmed the origin of the mysterious Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea. New evidence shows that an asteroid about 160 meters wide struck the seabed roughly 43 to 46 million years ago. The i...

Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden biosignatures, limitations in detection technology, and assumptions about what life should look...

Experts have unraveled substantial new text from two carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, including what may be a previously unknown work by a Stoic philosopher.

Comforting others is a culturally bounded motive rather than a universal human instinct. While individualistic societies actively try to eliminate a peer's distress to foster intimacy, collectivistic cultures accommo...

Scientists demonstrates that a carbon-fiber nanosensor can differentiate Autism Spectrum Disorder from Intellectual Disability by measuring real-time nitric oxide production in undifferentiated patient stem cells, even w...

A massive, 77-nation collaborative study is surveying 15,000 participants globally to map out how different cultural and situational backgrounds alter intertemporal choices, the critical decisions balancing immediate gra...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely for more than eight ...

A comprehensive study of 287 MS brain tissue donors from the Netherlands Brain Bank demonstrates that multiple sclerosis progression variability is driven by specific pathological features, such as broad rim lesions and ...

When a high-intensity laser interacts with plasma, the charged particles typically oscillate back and forth like waves on the ocean. But what if the laser itself could twist like a whirlpool? Researchers have now demonst...

The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study published in the journal Nature, MIT researchers report that a certain microscopic structure found in natural ...

Participants consistently categorize mental growth into an early-emerging "Perceptual-Experiential" nature dimension and a later-developing "Reflective-Evaluative" nurture dimension, showing that a synchr...

An international research team has demonstrated that the intrinsic disorder of the compound semiconductor CuInSnS can be exploited to influence its optical properties. While the atomic vibrations also sense the local dis...

An FDA-approved rheumatoid arthritis drug targeting the IL-6 receptor significantly reduces excessive alcohol consumption in alcohol-dependent female mice. The treatment functions by blocking neuroinflammatory pathways t...

A new AI-powered framework could transform how astronomers measure the expansion of the Universe. By analyzing images of Type Ia supernovae and modeling their environments in unprecedented detail, researchers can estimat...

A brief two-week period of social isolation during adolescence permanently destroys an animal's adult capacity to sense emotional distress in peers and perform consolation grooming. This socio-emotional blindness per...

The native brain protein Arc mediates the intercellular transmission of toxic Tau via extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease. While Arc helps sick neurons survive longer by expelling toxic Tau aggregates, it s...

For decades, weve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find the birth process just as difficult

Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. When evolutionary anthropologist David Samson delved into our ancient past to find the reasons why, he discovered surprising ways to get a better night...

Women who were vaccinated against covid-19 in the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle reported having a breakthrough infection sooner than those vaccinated during their follicular phase

An international team of quantum researchers has shown how machine learning can be used to filter a practically infinite number of possible material combinations to identify candidates for superconductivity. Thanks to th...

China's Line Shine supercomputer is the most powerful in the world and the first the country has hosted since 2017.