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Researchers have devised an ingenious method of using acoustics to conceal and simulate objects.

Previous fires may hold the key to predicting and reducing the severity of future wildfires in the western United States as fire activity continues to increase, according to researchers.

Scientists reveal new approaches to manipulating light absorption in optical resonators by different types of optical losses.

The effects of monsoon rainfall on food insecurity in Nepal vary by earthquake exposure, with regions that experienced both heavy earthquake shaking and abundant rainfall more likely to have an inadequate supply of nutritious food, according to new res…

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree.

A decades-long study of introduced voles on the Norwegian islands of Svalbard is helping to answer a longstanding puzzle of Arctic ecology — what drives the well-established population cycles of small Arctic mammals, such as voles and lemmings. These …

A new study into cognitive control promises to be the first of many aimed at understanding its origins in the brain and its variations between people and among groups.

CD8+ T cells — known as “killer” T cells — are the assassins of the immune system. Once they are primed, they seek out and destroy other cells that are infected with virus or cells that are cancerous. Priming involves dendritic cells — sentinels of …