A study of postmortem brain tissue donated by 338 former NFL players reveals that at least 24.5 percent of those who died ...

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Everyone knows the number. Eight hours. It sits on wellness dashboards, on pediatric handouts, on the label of the melatonin ...

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Animals don't just urinate to get stuff they don't want inside their bodies outside their bodies. Some use it as part of ...

Quantum computing was supposed to be the next big thing, and for years the companies building it kept promising commercial ...

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Not all physical activity is equal when it comes to protecting the brain from dementia. Where and why we move may matter more ...

Studies have revealed that penguins, and we are not joking, can control the weather. To really understand and manage climate ...

What would happen if we launched nuclear waste into the Sun? As nuclear power expands and more spent nuclear fuel is produced ...

Sex work, the exchange of sexual labor for money, goods, or other resources, has likely been a facet of human society since ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, ...