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Breathing out after birth switches off the ability of tissues to regenerate, a study in mice suggests. But the pathway seems to be reversible

Earth is warming faster than ever recorded, with scientists detecting a major acceleration in global temperatures since around 2015. A new study reveals that the warming rate has surged to approximately 0.35C per decade,...

Astronomers have solved a 170-year-old planetary mystery in a nearby two-star system, discovering that a mysterious wobble was caused by stellar activity rather than a giant planet. Although Jupiter-sized worlds have bee...

A research team from Toyohashi University of Technology, the Institute for Molecular Science and the Institute of Science Tokyo, led by Yu Kinjo and professor Ryugo Tero of Toyohashi University of Technology, has develop...

Why do premature infants face motor and language delays even without brain injuries? A landmark Science study led by Children's National reveals that developing outside the womb rewires the molecular programs of cere...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found what might be a new dwarf planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun on an inclined plane past Pluto.

A surprising discovery at UC San Diego suggests that chronic lower back pain may become deeply embedded in the brain's sense of personal identity. Researchers found that movement-triggered pain activates a brain netw...

Forever chemicals are renowned for their durability and their non-stick properties, but they persist for years in the environment. An alternative inspired by plants doesn't have the same problem

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms in which electrons can move with high mobility, making it promising for high-speed electronic components. Yet it is not very efficient at converting light into electricity. Whil...

A biology student found a Native American stone spearpoint when searching for shark teeth along the coast of Virginia.

A biology student found a Native American stone spearpoint when searching for shark teeth along the coast of Virginia.

Can industrial water runoff trigger atypical parkinsonism? A 25-year study of 500,000 adults published in Neurology shows that living near facilities emitting pesticides, heavy metals, and organic pollutants is linked to...

See the new facial reconstruction of a man from Roman-era Scotland who was decapitated after his death and buried near a Roman fort.

The word "vacuum" may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without planets, debris, gas clouds or light. According to quantum theory, however, a vacuum is nev...

Scientists at Rutgers and in Estonia have used invisible light to look into tiny magnetic whirlpools, called vortices, inside a superconductor, revealing details that could help researchers develop better materials for c...

All materials contain inherent defects. These are not always harmful, since they can be used to engineer and introduce certain properties into a material. However, it is crucial to understand how they function and how th...

Do fact-checking badges stop bad information from swaying our minds? Cognitive psychology experiments reveal that even when a source is labeled as a 50% coin-flip, it still biases human choices, despite users knowing bet...

Why do women generally prefer the thermostat set higher than men? Researchers at Kings College London discovered that two thermosensitive ion channels, TRPM2 and TRPM8, are molecularly tuned to activate at warmer tempera...

Developing research suggests that ancient interbreeding wasn't random - it was socially patterned, directional and far more complicated than the headlines suggest.

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to obtain from an altermagnet a spin current that can transport magnetic information. This result is supported by the theoretical mode...

Researchers at EPFL have developed a chip-scale blue laser that combines stable light emission with rapid frequency control, opening possibilities for underwater communication, environmental sensing and quantum technolog...

The first patient received a dose of the high-precision gene editor in a new clinical trial for Wilson disease. Researchers hope it's a one-and-done fix. The post CRISPR Prime Editing Rewrites DNA in the Human Body f...