The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

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Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum ...

One of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station is undergoing a “medical situation”, forcing NASA to bring the ...

Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes ...

A man with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut microbes produce intoxicating levels of alcohol, has been ...

The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of ...

A comprehensive review confirms the benefits of exercise for treating depression, even if the exact reasons remain unclear ...

Evidence is mounting that specific gut bacteria are linked to sleep conditions, which may open the doors to dietary ...

The benefits of sleep may be more universal than we thought. We know it helps clear waste from the brain in humans, and now ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...