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A fleeting photoinduced electronic state and the subsequent formation of a photoinduced hidden state in a metal-organic framework were captured in just 30 femtoseconds by researchers at Science Tokyo, Tohoku University a...

A major review found that exercise produces only small average improvements in hip osteoarthritis pain and physical function. It may still help some people, but researchers warn that current evidence is too limited to kn...

A single 30-minute sauna session may briefly put the immune system on higher alert. Finnish researchers found that sauna heat, paired with a short cold shower, increased every type of white blood cell circulating in the ...

Newly excavated bones from Gran Dolina cave in Spain reveal an ancient human relative practiced cannibalism on adults and children, but researchers still don't know why.

A Cornell University study uses game theory to model how poorly designed AI regulation could backfire. The post Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All appeared first on SingularityHub.

A new study reveals that memory consolidation during sleep requires coordinated signaling among the orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus, and hippocampus, and shows how epileptic spikes break this circuit.

Engineers develop self-powered wearable sweat patch for continuous levodopa tracking in Parkinson's.

A new study argues that US suicide statistics significantly undercount deaths by misclassifying up to 30 percent of drug overdoses as accidents.

A drug advisory committee in the US has recommended approval for several experimental peptides. But there have been no large-scale tests of these new compounds in humans, finds columnist Grace Wade

Researchers investigate cultural differences in subjective cognitive decline.

A new study reveals that the vagus nerve transmits gut nutrient signals to the hippocampus, boosting acetylcholine release and spatial memory.

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), the Technical University of Darmstadt, Sapienza University in Rome and the University of Camerino (both in Italy) have calculated the fundamental laws of therm...

A new study reveals that eye state flips the relationship between alpha brain activity and mind wandering.

Climate campaigners are angry at reports that the UK government is set to allow oil and gas drilling projects to go ahead, but the focus must be on ending fossil fuel consumption, not production, says Michael Le Page

When accounting for test volatility and regression to the mean, overconfidence is universal, with high performers exhibiting the greatest overconfidence.

Light typically interacts with a material the same way whether it enters through the front or the back-like polarized sunglasses that work the same from either side. Cornell researchers have demonstrated a simple route t...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ripped apart

Human-specific duplicates of the SRGAP2 gene slow microglial maturation to four to eight years.

As you get older, your bodys response to food changes significantly. But by making the right changes to what you eat from midlife and beyond, it might be possible to add a decade to your life

An eye implant and a pair of high-tech glasses that enable people with a severe form of vision loss to read have been approved for use by a European regulator

Integrated photonic devices-tiny circuits that use light instead of electrons-are becoming increasingly important for scalable photonics technologies and high-bandwidth communications. They are particularly valuable for ...

Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out - a problem that stumped Richard Feynman and has divided physicists for nearly a century.