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​With an epidemic of addiction to opioid painkillers on the rise, researchers say they've found an alternative for pain relief from an unlikely source – a small snail found in the Caribbean Sea. The little cone snail Conus regius​ produces a venom that blocks a different pain pathway.

It can be a hassle, taking your glasses on and off to switch between near and distant vision. That's why scientists from the University of Utah have developed glasses that change focus automatically, depending on what you're looking at.​

Researchers at the University of Utah have devised a method to create invisible images embedded within normal-looking images using cheap inkjet printers. The data hidden in these images can then only be revealed using sub-millimeter electromagnetic radiation

Scientists have observed the brain's reward circuits in Mormons as they engaged in spiritual activities, finding that they activated regions in a very similar fashion to other stimuli like gambling, drugs, sex and love.

Most bans on ivory trading outlaw the sale of pieces acquired after 1976. Scientists have now used a form of carbon dating to determine the real age of ivory samples, with an early study revealing more than 90 percent of seized shipments came from animals that died within three years previous.​​

Scientists have discovered a fast-acting insulin from a notoriously slow-moving source, finding the insulin in a certain type of snail venom can begin working in a third of the time of the fastest insulins currently on the market. ​

Some dinosaurs may not have roared as they do in the movies, according to a new study. Instead, they may have even cooed like birds.

Engineers have developed a new type of thin, flat, and ultralight lens which can still bend light to a single point like traditional lenses. The development could see future cameras use paper-thin lenses rather than bulky protruding optics.

Researchers could be fending off the demise of Moore's Law with the help of a new kind of flat semiconducting material made of tin monoxide that is only one-atom thick, allowing electrical charges to pass through it faster than silicon or other 3D materials.

Engineers have created a new type of color filter which could help to produce sharper and brighter photos in low light conditions. The new filter, which could appear in smartphones within three years, allows three times more light to reach an image sensor than conventional filters.

Photonic CPUs could potentially process information at the speed of light – millions of times faster than standard computers available today. University of Utah engineers have moved that possibility one step closer with the claimed creation of the world's smallest silicon photonics beamsplitter

A new study of geological material containing records of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), a global warming event that took place 55 million years ago, reveals similarities between then and man-made warming that could gives us clues on how to deal with current climate change.