Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have lower levels of the neuromodulator acetylcholine (ACh) in their brains. Donepezil, an AD drug, increases brain ACh levels and improves AD-associated learni… [+4810 chars]
Theoretical physicist James Vary has been waiting for nuclear physics tests to confirm the truth of a “tetraneutron” that he and his colleagues theorized, foresaw, and first asserted during a demonst… [+1310 chars]
(CNN) – These are bacteria like you’ve never seen before — likely because, until now, all known bacteria could only be seen using a powerful compound microscope. A newly discovered bacterium that is… [+4134 chars]
Scientists think it’s possible that the two genes, PEN1 and SYP122, paved the way for all kinds of terrestrial plant life. Researchers have shed new light on how plant life originated on Earth rese… [+6075 chars]
The largest-known bacterium is changing researchers' ideas about what is possible for bacteria, Earth's most ancient life form. The organism was discovered on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and … [+4091 chars]
This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Even before the recent craze about sentient chatbots, large language models (LLM) had been the source of much excitement and concer… [+7519 chars]
This Hubble image features four of the thousands of galaxies found within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. All of the highlighted galaxies show evidence of vigorous star formation (blue regions filled wi… [+6107 chars]
Nineteen years after its launch, the Mars Express project, one of the most successful missions launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), is finally getting a software update. With the update, Mars… [+1952 chars]
The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS), the new planet-hunting instrument at the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, has successfully performed it… [+1852 chars]
Printed Electronics World Blood pressure is one of the most important indicators of heart health, but it's tough to frequently and reliably measure outside of a clinical setting. For decades, cuff-b… [+3930 chars]
Scientists think it’s possible that the two genes, PEN1 and SYP122, paved the way for all kinds of terrestrial plant life. Researchers have shed new light on how plant life originated on Earth rese… [+6075 chars]
The Juno mission, which has been in orbit around Jupiter since 2016, has taken some of the most beautiful pictures of the planet. Numerous of these photographs have also explored Jupiters peculiar at… [+2126 chars]
