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A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their neurological and intestinal health. Researchers traced much of the effect to suppression of ferr...

A dead white dwarf with no detectable disk has somehow produced a powerful shock wave that appears to have persisted for at least 1,000 years. Its magnetic field may be partly responsible, but astronomers say an unexplai...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar systems first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked alongside gravity to...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive Etruscan burial mound with a vast assortment of grave goods north of Rome.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers resolve how membrane lipid PIP2 locks CNG channels closed, revealing a therapeutic target for retinal degeneration.

EEG study shows dogs prioritize consonants over vowels to break continuous speech into words, matching human speech-parsing strategies.

Researchers discover why marmoset brains remain smooth, revealing how progenitor cell timing alters primate cortical folding.

Hooking up dogs to non-invasive EEG monitors has helped identify exactly which component of human speech the animals are most attuned to

Orangutans spend more than eight years learning how to cope on their own, and now we have a clearer idea of how they work out which foods to incorporate into their diet

Strike a bell, and it rings with a pitch and a fading that tell you about the bell: its size, its shape, the metal it is made of. Black holes ring too. When two merge, the newborn black hole shivers and sheds gravitation...

The AI-powered virtual cell tailors treatments for breast cancer based on samples of each patient's tumor. The post A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer appeared first on...

A new review finds that while humor builds resilience during remission, using comedy during acute depression can trigger intense anxiety and gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at).

BrainGate study finds motor cortex observational activity scales with how human-like an action looks, revealing distributed networks over mirror neurons.

Scientists reveal how APOE4 causes reversible blood vessel scarring and halts waste clearance in Alzheimers, using new 3D miBrains.

Quantum materials do things ordinary materials cannot. They carry current without any loss, or conduct only along their outer edge while the inside insulates. Future quantum computers and quantum sensors will run on mate...

Behind every secure online transaction or encrypted message lies a string of completely unpredictable numbers. A team of physicists has now proposed a theoretical way around a long-standing roadblock, opening the door to...

Researchers at the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), a center within Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), discovered that atomic-scale steps can guide superconducting vortic...

A backpack consisting of electrodes, cables and a soft massage head kneads muscles in the back when it picks up on them being fatigued

Twistronics has become a new alchemy of materials. By choosing atomically thin layers, stacking them and changing their relative angle, researchers can create electronic behavior absent from the original ingredients. Twi...

Hormone replacement therapies may reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke, but the timing of when they are started could be critical

The actor urges us to work with nature, not against it, in new documentary How to Live on Earth. Let's hope it can make a real difference, says Alec Luhn

A patch that measures levels of two reproductive hormones in sweat has shown promise for predicting ovulation in a small study