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Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia.

In their study of 62 older, cognitively healthy adults, researchers from the University of California,…

What if a single vaccine could offer protection against a range of disease-causing bacteria, common allergens and respiratory viruses? A new mouse study highlights an experimental vaccine that could potentially offer that elusive “universal”…

A vast field of prehistoric dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in northern Italy, reshaping scientists’ understanding of the region’s ancient past. Wildlife photographer Elio Della Ferrera stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest…

It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary.” No one expected that a world, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, would reveal traits of a super-Venus and change how we see certain planetary types.

Astronomers used JWST data to…

A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously unknown adaptation to aging that actively remodels one of the largest and most complex structures in our cells.

Not only…

Scientists have long wondered whether other social animals show any consistent response to companions that stop responding, seemingly in distress.

When a mouse spots another mouse lying still, it may paw at its friend, chew on its snout, or even…

Scientists have dived deeper into the “eye of the storm” swirling around supermassive black holes than ever before. This unprecedented investigation of the turbulent and violent conditions around these cosmic titans, including the first black…

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth’s atmosphere continues to become a heavily…

A renowned California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied distant planets and other areas of astronomy for decades was recently shot to death at his home in a rural community outside Los Angeles, authorities said.

Carl…

Arrokoth is a reddish, snowman-shaped asteroid in the Kuiper Belt and the most distant object explored by a spacecraft. You don’t need to be an astrophysicist to assume the asteroid formed via a slow, gentle collision—but the…