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A large study of more than 5,500 adults over 50 found a striking combination of risk factors: abdominal obesity paired with vitamin D deficiency was linked to a 123% higher risk of death over six years. Each condition wa...

A new study induced artificial hibernation in lab mice and may have revealed something fundamental about the nature of memory.

A study tracking tree cover in Chicago over 11 years found that neighborhoods losing canopy saw death rates climb, especially in the city's hottest areas.

Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our knowledge of memory in the mammalian brain

Archaeologists have analyzed dozens of skeletons from a mass burial in a well. The lack of injuries suggests the people may have died from a plague rather than a battle.

A new AI system lets robots plan their next move while they're in motion - removing reaction delays and doubling task speeds without any extra computing overhead.

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggests

Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural compone...

Analysis of a mathematical puzzle that Leonhard Euler deemed unsolvable in the 1700s reveals that the crucial ingredient for cracking it after all is quantum entanglement

While parasitic Cyclospora infections have reached record-breaking numbers this year, experts have criticized coverage that has created the appearance of "one massive outbreak." The reality is more nuanced.

The oldest known rock from Mars was discovered on Earth in 2022. Scientists are beginning to reveal its mysteries.

A distinctive growth ring in fossilized bones is revealing how an ancestral species in the mammalian family reproduced.

A new study submerged pigs in a high-pressure tank and uncovered a potential new way to beat "the bends."

Diamond is more than a dazzling gem-the extremely hard form of carbon makes up the pellet that encases fuel for inertial confinement fusion, and scientists believe it rains down deep inside ice giant planets like Neptune...

It may not be a 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse, but with more than 96% of the moon immersed in Earth's shadow, it promises a fine lunar observing and photography opportunity. Here's what to know.

Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country

Researchers build a new memory device following a single-electron storage breakthrough. It could make transferring data faster and more energy-efficient.

Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cells DNA. Losing just one copy of TBX5 can cause the genomes carefully folded 3D structure to unravel, disr...

NASAs Perseverance rover caught a striking first from Mars: Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single point of light before briefly vanish...

A year after its final muon magnetic anomaly announcement, the Muon g-2 collaboration reports a new measurement of a different property of the muon: its electric dipole moment. The work is published on the arXiv preprint...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre object from just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines far too brightly to actually be one. ...

The critical current could remain stable beyond 5C of warming, but only if thewarming happens very slowly