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Can you separate the art from the artist? A new study shows our brains do it automatically: when a beloved creator falls from grace, memory performs "moral surgery," downgrading the person while protecting nostal...

Can everyday dietary lecithin defend against memory loss? A study of 1,917 older adults combining MoCA assessments with targeted lipidomics reveals that lecithin and polyunsaturated phosphatidylcholine are linked to lowe...

How can scientists determine cause and effect when experiments are impossible? A new framework published in The Innovation uses delay embedding entropy to infer intervention-level causality directly from observational da...

Can blood platelets track Parkinsons disease progression? Research from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) demonstrates that platelets reflect neurodegenerative shifts-from mitochondrial breakdown to dem...

The outer solar system will descend into chaos just a few billion years after the sun exhausts its fuel - much sooner than scientists previously thought, a new study suggests.

A new study revealed that people who rely on AI for basic tasks become less motivated over time. Live Science polled its readers on whether they have experienced this situation.

Particle accelerators are expensive. Not just to build or to run, but also to predict the outcome of measurements obtained from them.

Quantum researchers are searching for a topological superconductor-a material that, if discovered, would allow major advances in quantum computing by combining two distinct "flavors" of superconductivity.

It's unclear how and why Mars once became warm enough to allow water to flow on its surface, but a new idea suggests it comes down to rust below the surface

How is AI affecting collaboration and creativity? Cognitive scientists ran an experiment to find out. The post AI May Quickly Generate Ideas-but Teams of People Are Still More Creative appeared first on SingularityHub.

Billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency have been stolen in just a matter of minutes. Researchers are already unpicking what went wrong

Quantum networks could one day connect quantum computers into more powerful systems and enable new forms of secure communication. But a fundamental obstacle stands in the way: Quantum information is extraordinarily fragi...

Researchers hope recursive self-improvement could tackle the skyrocketing costs of developing advanced AI models. But is it viable?

In this extract from Chris Becketts Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet some of the inhabitants of a dark planet that drifts outside the Milky Way, descendants of two astronauts marooned...

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way. Award-winning author Chris Beckett explains how he thought through the science behind this night world

Physics is generally built on observations, then the maths that supports them comes later. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan takes a look at an effort to reverse this and rebuild the laws of physics from the maths up

For decades, physicists recognized only two types of magnetism that occur in materials without external influence: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. In findings published in Science, a team led by the U.S. Departmen...

A promising new study suggests that more than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes could achieve remission in just six months through a combination of a low-calorie diet and structured exercise. Researchers found ...

Scientists have created a miniature universe in the laboratory that could help answer one of the biggest mysteries in physics: What is time, and where does it come from? Using 24,000 ultracold atoms, a University of Birm...

Graphene, a material consisting of a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, has proved promising for various technological applications. Materials in which several layers of graphene are stacked together ...

Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their preference for warm env...

A computer scientist has achieved a breakthrough in a nearly 25-year-old problem involving how computers calculate distances across enormous networks. The new algorithm delivers more reliable estimates for closely connec...