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Strange, Violent Dreams Could Be Trying to Warn Us About Future Brain Disease

Strange, Violent Dreams Could Be Trying to Warn Us About Future Brain Disease Researchers have found an unexpected link between strange, physically violent dreaming and the risk of neurological disease, such as Parkinson's and dementia, later in life, and say they could act as an early warning sign decades before diagnosis.

The World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Just Gave Rise to a 'Molecular Black Hole'

The World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Just Gave Rise to a 'Molecular Black Hole' Imagine you took all sunlight that hits our planet at any given moment, and focussed it on one (unfortunate) piece of Earth the size of a thumbnail. Now times that blistering intensity by 100 , and you're beginning to understand the insanity of the...

It's Happening: LIGO Just Detected Gravitational Waves For The THIRD Time

It's Happening: LIGO Just Detected Gravitational Waves For The THIRD Time The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has done it again, detecting gravitational waves rippling away from a cosmic collision between a pair of black holes. Only this time, the pair met around 3 billion light-years away.

We Might Have Been Wrong About How Anaesthesia Blocks Consciousness All Along

We Might Have Been Wrong About How Anaesthesia Blocks Consciousness All Along For more than a century, anaesthesia has been a routine part of surgical procedures, and for most people, it does the job of suppressing consciousness and pain perception pretty seamlessly.