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We spoke to the first author of a new study that could challenge much of what we thought we knew about Alzheimer’s disease.

A newly-discovered rock art panel on the western bank of the River Nile may depict an Ancient Egyptian authority figure from ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...

The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...

Pseudoscorpions are tiny scorpion-like arachnids. They are found in many habitats across Earth, but some never see the light ...

Is civil war looming in the United States? This has been a recurring contention among some political commentators and ...

Because it has natural language capabilities – powered by the same kind of machine learning that underpins ChatGPT – the ...

It’s unsurprising a creature of the rainforest likes rain, but this video also proves one of our closest relatives has very individual tastes.

F or around four decades, the southwestern United States has been experiencing prolonged drought, but it’s never been exactly clear why. Now, researchers at Cornell University have identified the ...

Theoretically, large animals should get cancer more often than small ones, and for decades biologists have been puzzled as to why this didn’t seem to be the case. Indeed, many cancer researchers ...