Children with severe acute malnutrition might have swelling in the hands and feet known as nutritional edema or kwashiorkor and may be so sick they are unable to eat.

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Atoms are normally made of a nucleus and electrons. But now scientists have proposed a hunt for a new variety of atom without either.

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Women’s health and fertility apps have drawn concerns about privacy. But researchers say there could be safety implications as well, including from law enforcement, workplace discrimination and intimate partner violence.

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Models from Predictive Science Inc. forecasted the appearance of the sun’s corona during the April eclipse to better understand our star.

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Present-day volcanism on Venus might be far more pervasive than previously believed.

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Simulations created by researchers at Predictive Science Inc. in San Diego could help forecast solar activity and answer fundamental physics questions.

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If children survive malnutrition, they may face a lifetime of health problems. In Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, about 10 percent of kids 2 and younger are malnourished, according to a March report from UNICEF.

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Two small, humanoid robots play soccer after being trained with reinforcement learning. The AI tool helps the robots to be more agile and resilient compared with traditional computer programming, according to a recent study.

Data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft suggest that volcanic activity is widespread on Venus.

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Daredevils on motorcycles zip around the inside of the Wall of Death, driving along the circular wall in a feat that seems to defy gravity. But two exercise physiologists weren’t doing stunts — they were testing out a technique to run on the moon.

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These nerve cells, within a tiny piece of a woman’s brain, were digitally mapped. Their colors indicate different sizes of their main cell bodies, which were between 15 and 30 micrometers across.

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Scientists are taking a trip down memory lane — quantum memory lane.

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“We’ve never seen such resilience from humanoids,” said Joonho Lee, a roboticist at ETH Zurich.

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An amusement park attraction, the Wall of Death resembles a giant wooden barrel with the top sawed off. Daredevils on motorcycles zip around the inside, but exercise physiologists were testing a technique for running on the moon.

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Scientists successfully entangled quantum memories linked by telecommunications fibers across two different urban environments.

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From 2020 to 2023, scientists saw a rapid rise in the number of young adults who receive GLP-1 drugs. More than three times as many females ages 18 to 25 received the drugs than males of the same age.

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Reinforcement learning techniques could be the keys to integrating robots — who use machine learning to output more than words — into the real world.

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Frozen water is coated in a layer of molecules that behave like a liquid. A new experiment visualizes that surface and reveals the origins of the quasi-liquid layer.

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Before running along the Wall of Death, scientists donned a harness connected to a bungee cord, which effectively reduced their weight, mimicking moon gravity.

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Researchers have known that dopamine-releasing neurons in an area of the midbrain mediate feelings like euphoria. But the circuits driving withdrawal symptoms were less clear.

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