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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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Thanks to modern technological wizardry, it’s possible to produce a similar effect back in the lab, allowing scientists to ...

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...