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A device that delivers a small electrical current to the brain has beneficial effects in cases of depression that doesn't ...

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We can anticipate many false claims, including alleged mass voting by non-citizens or ‘suspicious vans’ outside polling ...

Support for a moderate environmental group rose after a motorway closure, substantiating the ‘radical flank effect’.

Minh Ha Quang’s work at a Japanese AI research centre aims to understand how machines extract image data from the real world.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will use its various instruments to probe whether the icy ocean world is habitable.

Pioneering crystallographer Helen Berman helped to set up the massive collection of protein structures that underpins the ...

Most neuroimaging experiments use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to scan the brains of 10–30 participants only ...

High-altitude planting could buffer the trees, and the migratory butterflies that roost in them, against the effects of ...

The impacts of armed conflict on biodiversity have long been neglected. A United Nations meeting hosted by Colombia is a ...

Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system ...