For children born with cleft lip and palate, repairing gaps in the jawbone often means waiting until they are 10 to 12 years old before undergoing invasive bone graft surgery. University of Sydney ...

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 ...

Photomultiplier tubes inside the LZ detector are designed to capture faint flashes of light that could signal a dark matter interaction. For the better part of a century, people have been trying to ...

Scientists have often wondered about species that are unique to Antarctica. But the focus has mainly been on animals, like cute feathery penguins. But CIRES researchers wanted to dig deeper — into the ...

There is a good reason why every time you check in for a flight, you are asked to confirm that there are no portable chargers or power banks in your checked luggage. A highly flammable liquid ...

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 ...

Many plant species parasitize other plants by latching on and taking the nutrition their host needs to survive. But sometimes, plants steal more than nutrients; they take genes. A new study shows how ...

New research shows that eating a more diverse range of plants - including fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices - on a weekly basis may be associated with better gut and metabolic health, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...