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Unusual short burst of X-rays coming from slowest-spinning neutron star
Composite photo of the slowest-spinning neutron star discovered so far (9-2016): background stars photographed in optical wavelengths; colorful cloud is the supernova remnant RCW...
Targeting fat to treat cancer
Salk Institute researchers and collaborators develop novel cancer treatment that halts fat synthesis in cells. Placebo-treated cells (left) have far more lipid (red) production...
Scientists uncover insights into the formation of Earth’s oldest continental crust
Samples of the world's oldest precisely dated rock. Credit: University of Alberta
Addressing fundamental unknowns about the earliest history of Earth’s crust, scientists have precisely...
‘Gut feelings’ help make more successful financial traders
Financial traders are better at reading their 'gut feelings' than the general population -- and the better they are at this ability, the more...
Bird brain? Pigeons have quite a way with words
Image Credit: Flickr/sermoa
Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, surprising new research from the University of...
Holographic imaging and deep learning diagnose malaria
Four cells in different stages of infection from a malarial parasite as analyzed by a new algorithm. As the parasite matures in the images...
Drinking beer helps us see happy faces faster
What does drinking beer really do? A new study has shown that drinking beer affects the way we see specific emotions and allows us...
Parkinson’s disease protein plays vital ‘marshalling’ role in healthy brains
The study suggests that alpha-synuclein acts as a bond between cellular transporters in healthy brains, regulating their flow and therefore controlling the signalling process....
Neuroscience study supports 200-year old art theory
A pilot study from a group of Dutch scientists implies that being told that an image is an artwork automatically changes our response, both...
Acidity in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels
The ice is drilled in Greenland and Antarctica and is transported back home to the laboratory where it is prepared and made ready the...
Reptilian anachronism: American alligator older than we thought
"If we could step back in time 8 million years, you'd basically see the same animal crawling around then as you would see today...
