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We may finally know why psychological stress worse...
A pathway between the brain and the immune system discovered in mice could explain why prolonged str...
Elon Musk's brain implant firm Neuralink gets appr...
The brain implant company Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk among others, previously tested implants i...
AI is a key issue in negotiations between actors a...
The US actors’ union will negotiate with Hollywood studios over the rights to use AI to create "digi...
mRNA trial shows promise for these therapies to re...
People with a rare condition experienced fewer or no complications after receiving an experimental m...
Capital letter test is a foolproof way of sorting ...
A trick for asking questions using capital letters seems to baffle artificial intelligences like Cha...
Sunlight could cool an atom to its coldest possibl...
Sunlight transmitted through an optical fibre could be used to help cool a single charged atom to a ...
Ocean-fertilising bacteria work together to adapt ...
Trichodesmium, a kind of cyanobacterium that is vital to ocean ecosystems, forms colonies that work ...
Fake alien message sent to Earth to prepare us for...
A coded message called “A Sign in Space” has been sent from a spacecraft orbiting Mars to simulate p...
US Supreme Court slashes protections for wetlands
Around half of all wetlands in the contiguous US will now lose their protections under the Clean Wat...
5000 species not known elsewhere live in area set ...
Thousands more species are probably waiting to be discovered in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a regio...
We now know how Botox enters neurons and paralyses...
Molecular imaging shows that botulinum neurotoxin uses three receptors to enter neurons. The finding...
Ultrasound can trigger a hibernation-like state in...
Focused ultrasound waves targeting a certain area of the brain can lower body temperature in rodents...
The Ferryman review: A profound new take on a sci-...
Justin Cronin's new science fiction novel transmutes the familiar trope of a utopia with a dark secr...
Read an extract from The Ferryman by Justin Cronin...
This tantalising extract is taken from the prologue of The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, a science fict...
Superconducting ‘fluxonium’ is the longest lasting...
A fluxonium qubit can keep its most useful quantum properties for about 1.48 milliseconds, drastical...
Sudden infant death syndrome may have a biological...
The condition may at least partly be caused by insufficient binding of a neurotransmitter to recepto...
Common compostable plastic fails to break down aft...
A leading "bioplastic" used in single-use cups and containers degrades in the ocean just as slowly a...
Tumble dryers shed hundreds of tonnes of microfibr...
Condenser tumble dryers are sold as a "sustainable" option because of their low energy demand, but t...
