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Zapping spinal cord injuries helps restore hand st...

Electrical stimulation on the back during rehabilitation exercises causes lasting improvements in pe...

Why are there so many rogue planets and what do th...

Estimates suggest there are trillions of free-floating worlds in our galaxy alone. Most of them will...

What is thought and how does thinking manifest in ...

We can describe different kinds of thought and how they arise, to some extent, but the relationship ...

Incredible maths proof is so complex that almost n...

Mathematicians are celebrating a 1000-page proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture, a problem so...

VR headset can give you 360-degree vision like an ...

A virtual reality system and a head-mounted 360-degree camera make it possible to look directly behi...

Heatwaves seem to be driving severe asthma flare-u...

Children are more likely to be hospitalised for asthma complications during a heatwave, a problem th...

Physicists are grappling with their own reproducib...

A contentious meeting of physicists highlighted concerns, failures and possible fixes for a crisis i...

Keto diet may accelerate organ ageing

In mice, a ketogenic diet increases the build-up of zombie-like cells in the heart, kidney, lungs an...

Orchids feed their young through underground funga...

A common species of orchid seems to pass food packages to nearby seedlings, in a kind of plant paren...

Food 'addiction' should be treated like drug abuse...

A group of doctors and scientists is getting behind the controversial idea that people can be addict...

Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the...

Analysis of pollen in sediment cores from a large lake in Greece shows that nomadic livestock herder...

Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI's power nee...

Some AI firms think nuclear power can help meet the electricity demand from Silicon Valley’s data ce...

Fragile quantum entanglement may survive chaos of ...

Strange quantum characteristics of molecules can weather the chaos of chemical reactions, which may ...

AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on ju...

You can blank out certain types of background noise and focus on just one conversation using prototy...

Some brain injury patients would recover if life s...

After comparing people with brain injuries whose life support was continued with those who had it tu...

A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the py...

Soil core samples show an ancient riverbed under the desert near many Egyptian pyramids, revealing a...

Black bear caught on camera in Pasadena goes viral...

Wildlife photographer Johanna Turner used a trail camera to capture this cheery shot of a black bear...

'Smiling' black bear caught on camera in Pasadena ...