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Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery by discovering the missing genetic ingredient that helps melanoma cells become effectively immortal. The breakthrough could open the door to new treatments aimed at disrupti...

The skill gap between our dominant and non-dominant hands is not innate, but rather an emergent consequence of a lifetime of asymmetrical practice that manifests exclusively during tool use.

Melatonin can reduce chronic musculoskeletal pain by 9 to 10 points on a 100-point scale. This therapeutic relief matches the efficacy of opioids and NSAIDs while bypassing their severe risks of organ toxicity and addict...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates neuroprosthetic development for bo...

A new study demonstrates the first successful generation of retinal endothelial cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). When tested in vitro, the cells accurately modeled the tissue degradation of diabetic ret...

Mothers without postnatal depression account for nearly half of all cases of Mother-to-Infant Bonding Difficulties (MIBD). The strongest predictor for MIBD was a mother's difficulty holding an infant due to crying or...

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary history influence spiders running speed

By remotely accessing an IBM quantum computer, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully simulated a key process in particle physics: hadronization. Although based on a simplified mod...

A new study uses a wearable EEG headset with real-time auditory feedback to nearly double the detection rate of hidden consciousness in unresponsive brain-injured patients from 39% to 69%.

Mice utilize visual infotaxis, moving strategically to maximize information gain, to identify partially occluded objects inside a custom virtual reality arena. This active sensing behavior scales continuously with visual...

A new study maps 20,000 English words by their visual mouth shapes (visemes), demonstrating that lip-reading errors are non-random and structurally driven by dense, compressed clusters of visual look-alike words within t...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest camera ever built to map the solar system, the galaxy and beyond

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these stupendously large black holes might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes them such an intriguing p...

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected antiviral defense system in sea anemones that works very differently from the one humans use. The discovery suggests evolution developed multiple ways to combat viruses, challengi...

A study of China's planted and natural forests reveals age, species mix, and CO2 sensitivity all contribute to how fast trees sprout leaves.

Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left - but then she was offered an experimental procedure

Switches drive nearly every machine. A new one, made of folded DNA, does the same work at the scale of molecules. The post This DNA Switch Could Control Molecular Machines appeared first on SingularityHub.

Scientists have managed to get ultrafast lasers running on tiny chips, paving the way for miniature-but-powerful diagnostic devices.

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect with up to 12 indistinguishable neutral atoms-an effect that has been predominantly observed in photonic systems.

A 2019 astronaut photo shows off ancient lava flows that once oozed down the jet-black slopes of the Toussidé volcano in northwestern Chad. An intriguing volcanic "skull" also lurks in the aerial image.

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimers disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from damaged neurons into healthy ones. By blocking these harmful protein packages before they reach new ce...