Across the world, populations are aging rapidly as people live longer and fertility rates continue to decline. Asia is at the vanguard of this demographic shift. The number of older adults (aged 60 ...

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In 1998, a scientist and a philosopher walked into a bar and ordered a drink. It’s not the beginning of a joke, but a consequential encounter between Christof Koch, a young German-American ...

The brain, like the rest of the body, has a remarkable degree of bilateral symmetry. It is helpful to think of it as an enlarged walnut. One side is not the exact mirror image of the other, but ...

Healthcare policy is increasingly justified through the language of numbers, yet numerical precision does not guarantee sound reasoning. Some of the most damaging public health controversies, from ...

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip ...

Scientists have shown that the stride length of the front legs (but not the hind legs) of senior and geriatric dogs decreases ...

All living great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans - laugh. But until now, it has been unclear how our ...

An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever ...

(via PBS Terra) In 2011, a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp burned for 111 days. Even a foot of rain from Hurricane Irene failed to extinguish it. The reason was hidden underground in layers of peat, ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a New York City hospital as he prayed in a language I did ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a ...