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Researchers report irisin, a hormone released during physical exercise, may promote neurogenesis in the hippocampus. The study sheds new light on why exercise helps improve memory and could help to protect the brain agai...

This strange type of magnetism can form rapidly -- and disappear just as quickly.

A hormone called irisin -- produced during exercise -- may protect neurons against Alzheimer's disease.

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Pets can get sick -- or, in rare cases, die -- from eating cannabis. Second-hand smoke can affect animals as well. Follow the "ABCs" of cannabis safety to protect your pets.

How I learned to stop worrying and rub aluminum into my armpits.

A new method developed by Northwestern Engineering's Manijeh Razeghi has greatly reduced a type of image distortion caused by the presence of spectral cross-talk between dual-band long-wavelength photodetectors.