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Ten rivers are responsible for half of the riverine mercury entering the world's oceans — with the Amazon River, the Ganges, and the Yangtze topping the list.

A new study has examined the use of wearable health technology and telehealth to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease.

An artificial neural network (AI) designed by an international team involving UCL can translate raw data from brain activity, paving the way for new discoveries and a closer integration between technology and the brain.

Researchers have discovered magnetic phenomena in antiferromagnets that could pave the way to developing faster and more efficient data storage.

Prosthetics have come a long way for people who have undergone an upper-limb amputation. There is a growing number of commercial neuroprosthetics, highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle signals and mimic their intended motions, but this dexterity comes at a price. Now, engineers have designed a soft, lightweight and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand.

Quantum engineers have removed a major obstacle standing in the way of quantum computers becoming a reality. They have discovered a new technique they say will be capable of controlling millions of spin qubits, the basic units of information in a silicon quantum processor.

Researchers have described a new method for counting mutations and have found that one in 15 men are likely to carry mutations that could adversely affect their offspring.

In one of the most comprehensive computational efforts to explore heritable genomic variations, researchers have pinpointed nine processes during which most human genetic mutations tend to arise.

Although the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many other dangerous pathogens still out there, like Yersinia pestis, which causes plague. Scientists have recently published a remarkable study which tracked the spread of antimicrobial resistant plague.

A tool created by scientists allows researchers, farmers, policymakers and other interested parties test different land management techniques to find out which ones and where could be most beneficial for bees.