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New research from Carnegie Mellon University shows for the first time how learning physics concepts is accomplished by repurposing neural structures that were originally...

People with type 2 diabetes are at greater risk of serious liver disease than those without the condition, new research has shown. Researchers warn that...

Researchers have found a new kind of long-range interaction between particles, in a liquid medium, that is based entirely on their motion. Alfredo Alexander-Katz...

There are six components to an apology -- and the more of them you include when you say you're sorry, the more effective your...

This is an aerial photo of the town of Jabor on Jaluit Atoll (169.5E, 6N), Republic of the Marshall Islands taken by a drone...

The device uses 'time-reversal' processing to send ultrasound waves through the hand. This technique is effectively like ripples in water but in reverse --...

Grant Lipman attends to a blister during a race in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. He is the lead author of a study that...

A new study suggests that Neanderthals across Europe may well have been infected with diseases carried out of Africa by waves of anatomically modern...

The areas that contributed to vision were more active under LSD, which was linked to hallucinations. Image Credit: IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Researchers from Imperial College...

Smoking may cost more than the money smokers spend on cigarettes. A new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine suggests unemployed smokers were...

An artist's conception of an exoplanet courtesy of NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech.Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Planet-hunting is an ongoing process that's resulting in the discovery of more and more planets...