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Researchers found that stressful conditions can shift cockroach decisions, suggesting insects adjust behavior based on ...

In the first study of its kind, neuroscientists have shown the real-world benefits that sunlight gives the brain, beyond ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

In Shany Dror's study, super-smart canines had 90% accuracy in fetching toys whose names they learned directly or overheard; ...

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

The double slit experiment reveals that observing light changes its behavior, making it act as both a wave and a particle.

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Magnets tuned with lasers at room temperature could lead to faster hard drives and a new generation of computer chips.

Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus collisions in an experiment ...