Category: Science and Health

A new type of OLED (organic light emitting diode) could replace bulky night vision goggles…

Fruit flies use vision to head toward interesting things, but also to stay steady during…

Trachomatous trichiasis, a potentially blinding condition where inward-turned eyelashes scratch the front of the eye,…

A new article describes a fingernail-sized machine that can twist thin materials at will, replacing…

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap…

New study demonstrates that one type of lipid is so critical for immune evasion that…

Scientists share detailed, complete images of a viral structure called the Ebola virus nucleocapsid. This…

A reaction that puzzled scientists for 50 years has now been explained by researchers at…

Analyzing wastewater has the potential to alert authorities about thousands of health threats at once,…

One in eight newborn babies has a gene variant that almost completely protects against jaundice….

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An…

New technology has allowed scientists to create ultra short ion pulses, with a duration of…

Dyspraxia, also known as Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), can have a bigger impact on adult…

Some plants are able to take over uninhabited spaces like sand dunes, volcanic substrates and…

Thanks to nanoscale devices as small as human cells, researchers can create groundbreaking material properties,…

Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar…

Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that…

Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to…

Mindfulness practices have been found to be effective in reducing symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)….

On average, we spend three and a quarter hours a day looking at our phones….

Consuming moderate amounts of coffee and caffeine regularly may offer a protective effect against developing…

Watching for changes in Mars’ orbit over time could be new way to detect passing…

With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found…

Van Gogh’s brushstrokes in ‘The Starry Night’ create an illusion of sky movement so convincing…

A new study has found that more than half of Black and Hispanic infants were…

The cumulative adversity index for people quantifies numerous measures of hardship, such as poverty and…

Researchers used robotics and additive manufacturing to toughen cement-based material with precisely placed hollow tubes….

Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they…

An experiment tested six generative large language models against students in an online introductory biomedical…

Those mesmerizing blue and orange hues in the sky at the start and end of…

Researchers follow the dramatic changes that occur in the brain throughout the course of pregnancy….

Contrary to common perceptions and years of research that autistic people can’t describe their emotions…

Monoclonal antibodies — treatments developed by cloning a cell that makes an antibody — could…

Special fat cells known as brown adipocytes help maintaining body temperature by converting calory-rich nutrients…

The atmospheric lidar ATLID, the last of four instruments on board the EarthCARE satellite launched…

Under the right conditions, liquid crystals condense into astonishing structures, spontaneously generating filaments and flattened…

Multiyear study finds that high levels of toxic metals in urine are linked to high…

New research has solved the mystery of how the Crystal Palace in London, which at…

The importance of disorder in physics is only matched by the difficulty to study it….