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There are tens of billions of galaxies in the universe, each with tens of billions of stars. Many stars have planets, and a healthy fraction of those are rocky and can sustain liquid water on their surfaces (like Earth)....

Study identifies specific chemical features of tau that may cause it to accumulate in the brain and trigger Alzheimer's disease.

Switching off activity in the anterior cingulate cortex prevented marmoset monkeys from making an association between behavior and a particular outcome.

Chronic stress which involves the HPA axis may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.

An enormous, ghostly hand stretches through the depths of space, its wispy fingers pressing against a glowing cloud. It sounds like something out of sci-fi, but it's quite real.

Planet Earth is now trapping twice as much heat as it did 14 years ago, according to findings of a new study, which raise concerns about the possible acceleration of climate change.

Could a devastating comet impact in Earth's distant past have forever changed human civilization?

Our planet is constantly moving, racing around the sun and spinning on its axis. But how fast does it move?

(Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS) With the rapid development of biomedical technology, the replacement of human skeletal diseases through human implants has become ...

(Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) permits multidisciplinary trace analyses and the potential detection of single molecules....