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MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean's twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.

Mental representations known as cognitive maps are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational route, according to new MIT research.

The brain's sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study.

A study of dozens of city gardens and urban farms across the US and Europe found several ways to boost their benefits, not just for their neighborhoods, but ...

MIT system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems. ChatGPT has made headlines around the world with its ability to write essays, email, and computer code based on a few prompts from a user. Now

Asthma control scores improved significantly over a 2.5-year period of continuous benralizumab therapy.

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Analysis of the pulse profile of a fast radio burst showed sub-second periodicity, providing evidence for a neutron-star origin of the event and favouring emission arising from the magnetosphere.

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Researchers have unlocked an evolutionary mystery of a deadly pathogen responsible for fueling the superbug crisis: it can reproduce by having sex. And while such fraternizing is infrequent, scientists report it could be producing more drug-resistant and more virulent strains of Candida auris, capable of spreading faster.

A test that uses a smartphone and works like a glucose reader could enable diagnosis and treatment to begin during a single office visit. It also can adapt to new COVID-19 variants.

The creation of high-resolution extrusion printing -- think 3D printing but with ink that conducts electricity -- has enabled researchers to explore the potential of wearable human motion devices. Wearable technology -- smartwatches, heart monitors, sleep aid devices, even step counters -- have become part of everyday life. And researchers have now created even smaller, lighter and highly-accurate sensors that can…

MIT researchers find that one key role of the neuromodulator noradrenaline, produced by the locus coeruleus, is to help the brain learn from surprising outcomes.

MIT researchers determined exactly what happens as crystal grains in metals form during an extreme deformation process, at the tiniest scales, down to a few nanometers across. The findings could lead to better, more consistent properties in metals, such as hardness and toughness.

A survey of more than 3000 neurology and psychiatry studies found that the vast majority failed to use participants' sex as a variable for determining gender-based differences.

Researchers believe that tannic acid plays a role in inhibiting three important molecular pathways involved in the SARS-CoV-2 infection.

In Canada, University of Saskatchewan researcher Dr. Ajay Dalai is working with Calgary-based industry, Tidewater Renewables, to develop a novel integrated process to produce renewable natural gas from the biomass. Dalai is developing a novel integrated process that uses both biochemical (anerobic digestion) and thermochemical (gasification) methods to produce RNG. With Saskatchewan's north home to […]

Abhilash Mathews, a graduate student at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, has been testing the accuracy of a reduced plasma turbulence model in a new way: he combines physics with machine learning.

A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This suggests pyrene may have been the source of much of the carbon in our solar system.

Women with longer reproductive lifespans and greater exposure to endogenous hormones had lower white matter hyperintensity volume, a biomarker of cerebral small vessel disease.