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The speed of the human brain's ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to ...

Sadly, we know that microplastics are getting everywhere, including our drinking water – but researchers have developed a new ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it – an effect dismissed as an ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make history, once again. On Christmas Eve, the spacecraft is going to get closer to ...

How we classify cancer and spot it in its earliest stages could need an urgent rethink: researchers have found that even some ...

Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations ...

The plot has just thickened in the mystery tale about the unseen mass skulking inside the largest cluster of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones.

Many of the fluctuations in the length of Earth's day have known causes. But on scales of decades to millennia, scientists ...

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new ...

In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping ...