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JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4696. A vast filament appears to funnel material into an 800-light-year-wide spinning disk, where gas races arou...

The Mediterranean diet may influence aging through tiny proteins produced inside the cells mitochondria. Older adults who followed the diet most closely had higher levels of humanin and SHMOOSE, which have been linked to...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-like stimulation induces a durable state of cellular dematuration and epigenetic nuclear reprogramming in mature, post-mitotic neurons.

Late adolescence triggers a temporary destabilization of contextual memory circuits due to the targeted remodeling of perineuronal nets (PNNs) in the retrosplenial cortex (RSP).

The AI company says a new finding about how Claude works echoes an influential theory of consciousness. That doesn't prove the AI is itself conscious. The post Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature o...

A new study establishes that primary hyperhidrosis is driven by a genetic defect in the Nav1.8 voltage-gated sodium channel.

Cognitive and behavioral symptoms in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) are driven by the remote circuit disruption of a shared frontoparietal architecture called the "PSP-tau network."

A new study evaluates 8,900 mother-infant pairs from the NIH ECHO program to prove that prenatal acetaminophen use carries no statistically significant association with adverse birth outcomes.

RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D structures were when life on Earth began.

Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather.

Lettuce served at Taco Bell has been identified as a source of Cyclospora infections affecting people across five states.

A new study by Queen Mary University of London mathematician Professor Ginestra Bianconi proposes a new perspective on one of the deepest questions in modern physics: How can the universe become increasingly structured a...

Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, mak...

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world's largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing protons together at nearly the speed of light, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has sto...

A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting them to the bacteria's rough surfaces

Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in China as well as the highest and largest crater lake in Northeast Asia.

Scientists say new technologies have reopened the debate over whether Mars could someday be terraformed, turning a once impossible idea into a serious research topic. Before anyone tries to reshape the Red Planet, though...

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraines latest cruise missile, showing how cheap technology is making military hardware accessible to all

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades. Their experiments showed that the rotation of both normal and reverse sprinklers is d...

Quantum computers, systems that process information using the principles of quantum mechanics, could solve some problems that cannot be tackled by the classical computers currently used worldwide. Despite their potential...

Tiny plastic particles in drinking water may be doing more than contaminating the environment. New research suggests nanoplastics can actually help harmful bacteria survive by strengthening the slimy biofilms they form i...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost