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Older people who feel or act younger than their biological age tend to have better cognitive function, lower stress, and less inflammation than their peers who feel their age.

A new US Navy autonomous drone will locate birds' nests near airfields, armed with a device that covers the eggs in oil to suffocate the embryos and prevent them hatching

The new craze of "popping toys" may help provide relief from stress and anxiety in both adults and children, researchers report.

Soccer players who feel anxious at the thought of kicking a penalty kick and who miss the goal show more activity in the prefrontal cortex. Overthinking the shot, researchers say, could play a role in missing a goal.

A newly developed artificial intelligence algorithm can accurately and reliably assess unconsciousness in patients under anesthesia based on brain activity.

Our concepts of people, objects, and events are composed of sensory impressions and actions associated with them, in addition to abstract symbol-like features.

Sleep disorders are associated with significantly higher rates of health care utilization including more doctors visits and prescriptions, placing an additional $94.9 billion in costs each year to the U.S. Health care sy...

7% of meat-eaters report feeling a "strong disgust" response to images of common meat-based dishes.

Damage to highly connected regions of white matter in the brain following injury is more predictive of cognitive impairment than damage to highly connected gray matter hubs.

A Chinese rocket core is tumbling uncontrolled through orbit, and may crash through the atmosphere on Saturday (May 8), government officials warn

A new model cuts through the chaos to reach the best-yet predictions of complex gravitational interactions --

Pfizer and BioNTech applied to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for full approval of their COVID-19 vaccine.

Supercentenarians and semi-supercentenarians - people who reach the ages of 110 and 105 - have genes that reduce the number of mutations that accumulate in their cells

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In Apples, a pandemic is causing people to lose their memories. The film follows people in a recovery programme aimed at giving them new identities

RNA-based drugs may change the standard of care for many diseases, making personalized medicine a reality. So far these cost-effective, easy-to-manufacture drugs haven't been very useful in treating brain tumors and othe...

An earthquake of approximately magnitude 9 in 1700 in Cascadia could have instead been three or four slightly smaller, but still devastating, quakes.

Cells talk to each other to coordinate nutrition, waste removal, energy use, and, in some cases, disease progression. The cells that line the surfaces of organs or specific tissues, called epithelial cells, appear to spe...

A new article takes a step towards a deeper understanding of how cells adhere to each other and their motility.

Some meat eaters feel disgusted by meat, according to a new study.

Depressive symptoms are more common in teenage girls than in their male peers. However, boys' mental health appears to be affected more if they suffer from obesity. Irrespective of gender, bullying is a considerably grea...

Physicists have measured the "neutron skin" of an atom for the first time, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it is extremely thin. The measurement may help us understand the properties of neutron stars