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Brain-training exercises may reduce the risk of dementia if they involve speedy thinking, whereas exercises involving memorization or reasoning have no effect on dementia risk, a two-decade-long trial suggests.

The finding could prompt…

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Astronomers may have just pushed the upper size limit of what counts as a planet, thanks to new insights into how giant worlds form.

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants…

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus’s moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden sea beneath its icy crust, making it hospitable to extraterrestrial life.

Discovering water on a…

In the Hollywood blockbuster “Inception” (2010), a dedicated team of “dream extractors” is hired to alter a CEO’s decision-making by manipulating his dreams. In the movie, this feat involves a private jet and liters of sedative gas — but a…

Researchers had only hypothesized the existence of underground lava tubes on Venus—until now.

Using decades-old radar data, a team of scientists in Italy has discovered an empty, subsurface lava tube on the solar system’s…

Earth’s core may contain 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen

Scientists may have discovered a pulsar at the Milky Way’s heart—a result that could reveal new physics

Scientists discovered human footprints preserved in ancient mud at White Sands, New Mexico. These footprints appear to date back to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) – a period during the last Ice Age roughly 23,000 years ago when glaciers were at…

The famous Inca “ice mummies” have been holding secrets since their discovery decades ago, and CT scans are now revealing what these children’s last moments were like, a new study finds.

The researchers examined the remains of four Inca children…