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Tiny pollution particles from smoke, soot, and dust may worsen rheumatoid arthritis and raise the risk of painful flares, particularly after prolonged exposure. The findings suggest that avoiding poor air quality could b...

A prescription form of THC helped many people with PTSD escape recurring trauma-related nightmares, with more than one-third reporting that the nightmares disappeared completely after ten weeks. The results could point t...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted mathematicians for more than a ce...

A new study links midlife vascular health to nearly 13 additional dementia-free years.

A spectacular fossil site in Canada contains 567-million-year-old creatures that may represent some of the earliest animals to move, reproduce sexually, and develop recognizable body plans. The discovery pushes key evolu...

A study involving 12,000 adults in the US suggests that taking action to prevent dementia during your 50s can make a big difference later in life

A new study uses single-cell long-read sequencing to map hidden genetic isoforms in glioblastoma, unlocking novel targets for personalized cancer vaccines.

A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the first shocking moments of a supernova explosion in unprecedented detail.

An international team of researchers has succeeded in producing atomic quantum gas mixtures with an unprecedented particle flux. In the journal Nature Communications, the scientists report on experiments conducted with t...

Super-thin superconducting materials, which are only one or a few atoms thick, have unique properties scientists can leverage to produce more compact, scalable, and efficient quantum devices. But these fragile materials ...

A new study introduces EMF-dVAE, a brain-inspired AI model that reduces video processing time by 65% and uses 15% of visual data while improving accuracy.

Altering the gut microbiomes of people with peanut allergy using faeces donated from an allergy-free individual improved their peanut tolerance in a clinical trial

While eclipse paths always move from west to east, this one seems to reverse direction on maps as it crosses the Arctic. Here's the geometry behind the illusion.

A new study shows modern human PSPH gene variants produce L-serine more efficiently than ancient hunter-gatherer versions, revealing how brain biochemistry evolved over time.

A study of over 170 PTSD patients finds that evening doses of dronabinol (THC) significantly reduce trauma-related nightmares, with over a third achieving complete remission.

Humans can see water but not air. So can fish see air? And would it be possible to have anti-black holes, and how could we tell if we were looking at one?

Readers debate how the introduction of bicycles and trains will have led to less closely related prospective partners for our ancestors - and consider various royal dynasties from this perspective

Out of This World by Peter Bond lays out the successes and failures of space exploration. It reminds us of what faces all who venture into the unknown, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

A reader weighs in on this one - and finds it will depend on how far youre travelling

Feedback is delighted to be pointed towards an old but still vital piece of research that presents a general mathematical and algorithmic theory for balloon-twisting structures

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