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

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

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

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

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

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