Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

The system seems versatile enough to detect basically any molecule, chemical or bacteria, good or bad. By adding two ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

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Some strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that causes the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhea, have ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes.

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

Symptoms of young-onset dementia have considerable overlap with those common in certain mental health conditions, such as ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a ...

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...