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Researchers shed light on why some people with depression experience memory loss and cognitive problems.

Two epoxidated compounds prove to be powerful in the regulation of pain and inflammation.

Inhibiting the SCD enzyme and blocking the function of FOSB blunts acquired drug resistance and improves survival in mouse models of glioblastoma brain cancer.

Sleep duration of five hours or less was associated with double the risk of dementia in older adults. Sleep disruptions also increased death risk in those in their seventies.

We are all vulnerable to conspiratorial thinking when we feel our identities are at stake and our emotions are strong.

Findings shed light on how experiences are committed to memory and later recounted to others.

There's a dwarf planet in our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, that swings so far away from the sun that from its perspective Earth and Saturn look like neighbors.

With the help of snails, researchers investigate the neural processes at work when we develop food aversions after eating a bad meal.

Study reveals a detailed map of gene proteins, infiltrating cells, and signaling pathways that play significant roles in the development and progression of glioblastoma brain cancer.

A new genetic study of Native Hawaiians finds that people who have a greater proportion of Polynesian ancestry in their genomes face a higher risk of obesity, Type-2 diabetes and heart failure.

The majority of the population can produce neutralizing antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in severe cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a new study. Mo...

A new computational analysis suggests that people under the age of 20 are about half as susceptible to COVID-19 infection as adults, and they are less likely to infect others.

Researchers discovered a single gene alteration that may help explain cognitive differences between modern humans and our predecessor, and used that information to develop Neanderthal-like brain organoids in the lab.

Induced changes in the function of AgRP neurons may contribute to depression, researchers report.

Miniature brains grown in the lab are helping to reveal how modern humans survived when other hominins died out, by comparing their development when a key gene is altered

A young galaxy has the hallmark central bulge and spiral arms of a much older one, suggesting that galaxies may form more quickly than previously thought

Seismologists studying earthquake activity off the US coast recorded fin whale songs, which they found can be used to tell the thickness and makeup of the Earth's crust

Seismologists studying earthquake activity off the US coast recorded fin whale songs, which they found can be used to tell the thickness and makeup of Earth's crust

For a billion years Earth's mountains stopped growing, and may have starved the sea of nutrients, new research finds.

Blueberry-size beads might have traveled more than 10,000 miles from Venice to Alaska in the 1400s.

Their final shape depends on an array of temperature, humidity, and wind speed variables --

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