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It sounds a bit like a magic trick: Some materials can be shot through with fast, electrically charged ions without...

A cell-culturing technique developed by KAUST scientists helps to create biological conditions that more closely mirror physiological environments compared to...

Singapore, 28 November 2022 – More than 1.4 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2020 globally, (1) but...

An interesting class of problems in geometry concerns tiling or tessellation, in which a surface or three-dimensional space is covered...

The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals,...

Is it possible to control an animal’s or a cell’s behavior using light? In recent years, remarkable progress in optogenetics...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28, 2022 – States that legalized recreational cannabis saw a slight population-level uptick in alcohol consumption that was...

MELVILLE, N.Y., November 28, 2022 – AIP Publishing is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Bo Wang of the...

The Field Museum in Chicago is home to the best, most-complete fossils of a prehistoric superpredator-- but one that lived...

CHICAGO – Using MRI data from the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States,...

Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species...

Cephalopods like octopuses, squids and cuttlefish are highly intelligent animals with complex nervous systems. In “Science Advances”, a team led...

African large carnivores have undergone significant range and population declines over recent decades. Although conservation planning and the management of...

Embargoed until: 05:01am GMT, Friday 25 November, 2022Credit: Markus Wagner Embargoed until: 05:01am GMT, Friday 25 November, 2022 Researchers have...

Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook...

A new study published in Science reports results from the first-ever global field assessment of the ecological impacts of grazing...

As people age, maintaining a positive and predictable social environment becomes more and more important. For instance, keeping close ties...

Zooming in on a single disease and studying it intensely is often the most productive route to finding treatments. But...

With the help of an AI, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that...

A new model explains that water evaporating from the Arctic Ocean due to a warming climate is transported south and...