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The brain’s ‘garbage disposal’ system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old proteins onto other brain cells.

Many of those proteins are involved in brain cell signaling at synapses, the tiny gaps…

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While Earth only has the one, Jupiter has about 100 that we know of (and likely hundreds more, depending on what you…

The arid expanse of the Nefud Desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula currently holds some of the most hyper-arid conditions on Earth. However, the geological record indicates that this landscape underwent radical transformations during the…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

Wildlife poaching is a serious issue in many parts of the world. One way of monitoring poaching activity is to put recorders in the…

A woman in the United Kingdom, who was born without a womb, has recently given birth to a healthy baby boy in a medical first for the nation.

As a teenager, Grace Bell was told she would never carry and give birth to a baby.

Now in her early…

On this day in 1940, two scientists discovered an elusive form of carbon — and inadvertently opened a window into lost…

Here in our Universe, there’s a big puzzle at the heart of every black hole. According to Einstein’s general relativity, for every black hole that exists within the Universe, there are only three properties that go into it that…