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A brainstem theory of consciousness puts the raw feeling of being 'you' in the brain's ancient stalk, and its evidence starts ...

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Poverty, hunger, and insecure land rights could limit efforts to plant new forests and remove carbon from the atmosphere, a ...

A tiny junction on a topological insulator seemed to close and reopen its energy gap, a key prediction of topological quantum ...

Changes in phone game decisions predicted heavier drinking the following month in a yearlong study of people with alcohol use ...

Heatwave wildfire smoke days now reach about 916 million people a year, and the heaviest burden falls on countries rarely ...

A satellite image of Cyprus reveals how ancient islands joined to form the Akrotiri Peninsula, enclosing a salt lake once ...

Blood patterns offer new clues to why ultra-processed foods are linked to heart disease, beyond their sugar, salt and ...

A DNA study traces how vampire flies spread across the Galápagos, offering clues to protecting Darwin’s finches from the ...

A post-fire survey on Kangaroo Island turned up a millipede first collected in 1936 and left unnamed for 90 years.

The critically endangered Bangka slow loris has been rediscovered in Indonesia after decades without scientific records, but ...