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A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that ...

Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may help to preserve them ...

So why are there no moons with natural satellites of their own? Matt Bothwell University of Cambridge, UK. The very short ...

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing ...

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious ...

Inside the Antimatter Factory at CERN, scientists are answering one of the oldest questions in science: Why is there ...

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not ...

Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually ...

Disappearing sea ice is letting more sunlight in the Arctic Ocean and boosting phytoplankton growth, but this has depleted a ...