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

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

Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives – and what to ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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