The 2D MOT apparatus which feeds the science chamber with cold atoms. At the centre is a glass cell held under vacuum between coils producing magnetic fields. The atoms go into the science chamber ...

The study found in murkier water fish took longer to move towards the food than those in clear water, but individuals in larger groups responded more quickly overall. Stickleback fish can change their ...

A peer-reviewed narrative review in Brain Medicine, led by Dr. Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, integrates anthropology, history, and phylogenomics to argue that timing and regularity, more than ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has developed a novel theory of how firelight was critical to the evolution of sophisticated storytelling. In a paper published today (2 September) in ...

The adult human brain has limited capacity to repair or regenerate neurons lost to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. Existing treatments can slow disease progression but do not ...

The great majority of people taking part in a study lost weight by following personalised nutritional insights, rather than going on a calorie counting or restrictive diet, reveal findings from a new ...

Brain cells that produce the protective coating around nerve fibres can become dysfunctional with age and may actively contribute to cognitive decline, according to new research. A study found that ...

A warming pool of tropical ocean acted like a “regulator,” dialing up snowstorms over East Antarctica and contributing to a brief net ice-sheet mass gain of 695 billion tons, according to a new study ...

Chemically enhanced suppressor tRNAs combined with a lung-targeted delivery system can restore production of a critical protein in models of cystic fibrosis caused by nonsense mutations, according to ...

What did ordinary people really eat in premodern Japan, beyond the dishes described in cookbooks and the bones discarded at urban waste pits? Reconstructing past diets at the level of individual food ...

(August 26, 2026—BRONX, NY)—Adults with at least one parent who reached age 100 lived longer and had substantially lower risks of cardiovascular disease and hypertension than people whose parents had ...

Researchers at Princeton engineering have created a semiconductor with unique properties: it is just a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. This is a step ...