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A large study involving more than 270,000 people has linked higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine to a shorter lifespan in men. Usi…
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A large study involving more than 270,000 people has linked higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine to a shorter lifespan in men. Usi…
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The beloved "Peanuts" character’s many costumes and brand collaborations are featured in a new showcase
Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry out wetlands th…
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The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study our smallest pl…
Princeton researchers have tested an AI system that can monitor and control fusion plasma in milliseconds, reacting far faster than a human …
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Older female mice—equivalent in age to 60-year-old women—given daily injections of the active ingredient in Ozempic lived about 12 percent l…
Researchers may have found a new way to weaken glioblastoma’s defenses against treatment. Blocking a protein called SET prevented tumors fro…
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Scientists long attributed rain damage to physical abrasion and chemical degradation from acidic substances. A new study offers a third idea…
Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark m…
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The magnetic North Pole has shifted over the millennia, leaving clues in the minerals that make up clay antiquities
Archaeologists have identified tiny 80,000-year-old projectile points in Uzbekistan that may have been used like arrowheads. Their size, des…
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A new meta-analysis pooled data from more than one million people to look at the crossover between DNA and the "Big Five" personality traits…
A common frog found across Ecuador and Colombia has finally been recognized as its own species after more than a century of mistaken identit…
Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the …
Scientists have overturned a leading explanation for why male and female bonnethead sharks have differently shaped heads. Instead of males d…
A substance found in edible sea squirts appeared to reverse several signs of aging in older mice. Plasmalogen supplements improved memory an…
Puerto Rico’s normally rainy season has instead brought a severe and fast-growing drought. By August 25, three-quarters of the territory was…
MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing calculations and …
Slow breathing with a prolonged exhale made people more willing to take risks by changing heart activity and increasing the brain’s sensitiv…
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise an…
UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells res…
Duke researchers developed an injectable scaffold that helped stroke-damaged brains grow new blood vessels, support nerve regrowth, and reco…
Scientists have discovered a strange black “devil flower” in Thailand that lives mostly underground, steals nutrients from fungi, and looks …
Deep beneath Mars, scientists have found evidence of enormous magmatic systems once thought to require Earth-like plate tectonics. Seismic m…