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By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

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A black fungus thriving inside Chernobyl’s reactor could help shield astronauts from deadly space radiation. Here’s how ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Laurent Simons, 15, already earned a PhD in quantum physics, aiming to extend human life with ultracold science and AI ...

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Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...