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New AI tool reveals single-cell structure of chrom...

In a major leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, scientists have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool...

Groundwork laid for designer hybrid 2D materials

Materials scientists have succeeded in creating a genuine 2D hybrid material called glaphene.

Five things to do in virtual reality -- and five t...

A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it's struggled to become a megahit with consumers.

New method provides the key to accessing proteins ...

A new method could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues. The fin...

Genetic basis of purring in cats

Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis cat...

Electronic tattoo gauges mental strain

Researchers gave participants face tattoos that can track when their brain is working too hard. The study introduces a non-permane...

A cheap and easy potential solution for lowering c...

Reducing travel speeds and using an intelligent queuing system at busy ports can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oceang...

The future of AI regulation: Why leashes are bette...

Many policy discussions on AI safety regulation have focused on the need to establish regulatory 'guardrails' to protect the publi...

How does coffee affect a sleeping brain?

Coffee can help you stay awake. But what does caffeine actually do to your brain once you're asleep? Using AI, a team of researche...

Could 'pausing' cell death be the final frontier i...

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, d...

Does planting trees really help cool the planet?

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if e...

Evolution of a single gene allowed the plague to a...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survi...

Rock record illuminates oxygen history

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to ...

Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The s...

Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the Am...

Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier lo...

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that e...

New quantum visualization technique to identify ma...

Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant ...

Sustained in the brain: How lasting emotions arise...

Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a win...

Listening to electrons talk

Researchers present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much ...

Save twice the ice by limiting global warming

A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish sig...