Physicists demonstrate existence of new subatomic structure
James Vary, right, and coauthor Andrey Shirokov with an illustration of a tetraneutron. Credit: Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University
Studying the tetraneutron, once thought unlikely to...
Researchers have also found that exercise may also help prevent age-related hearing loss
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Listen up: Everybody has heard that exercise can help keep you slim and is good for heart health, but University of Florida...
Reducing exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) lowers levels of this environmental estrogen in women
Women who avoided foods, cosmetics, and other products packaged in BPA-containing plastic containers for 3 weeks had significant reductions in urinary levels of BPA,...
Controlling the properties of matter in two-dimensional crystals
An electron microscopy image of ordered atoms of tungsten (W) and molybdenum (Mo) against artistic representations of triangular single layer flakes of WxMo1–xS2 on...
Sunshine matters a lot to mental health; temperature, pollution, rain not so much
When it comes to your mental and emotional health, the amount of time between sunrise and sunset is the weather variable that matters most.Image...
Smoking a pack a day for a year causes 150 mutations in lung cells
An infographic describing the yearly number of mutations produced in a given type of cell by smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Credit:...
Illuminating lies with brain scan outshines polygraph test, study finds
Image is a Z-statistic map threshold at voxel-height probability of P<.001and cluster probability of P<.05 displayed over axial MNIT1 anatomic template. Significant clusters are...
Scientists set traps for atoms with single-particle precision
This image shows the basic setup that enables researchers to use lasers as optical "tweezers" to pick individual atoms out from a cloud and...
Why some songs get stuck in your head
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Almost all of us get songs stuck in our heads from time to time but why do certain tunes have the 'stick...
The Biggest Supermoon in Nearly 70 Years
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We’re about to see the biggest since 1948, the closest full moon in the 21st century.
If you go outside on November 14, you...
Study reveals non-invasive prenatal genetic test is accurate five weeks into pregnancy
Comparison of approaches to obtain fetal DNA in ongoing pregnancies, including amniocentesis, chorionic villous sampling (CVS), cell-free fetal DNA, and trophoblast retrieval isolation from...
