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Researchers discuss how to accommodate family members with dementia over the holidays to make Christmas a meaningful and joyous event for the entire family.

Not a day passes without a fascinating snippet on the ethical challenges created by "black box" artificial intelligence systems. These use machine learning to figure out patterns within data and make decisions--often wit...

Norepinephrine is locally regulated in the visual cortex. More norepinephrine is released when and where visual information is processed.

Comet Leonard may be sparking meteor showers at Venus this weekend during a relatively close approach of the comet to the planet.

Children with autism have abnormally low levels of the CNTNAP2 protein. The protein, which can be detected in cerebrospinal fluid samples, may serve as a new biomarker for autism and could potentially become a target to ...

The sun is in its main sequence, but how do scientists know when our nearest star will begin to call it quits?

During the last ice age, five mammoths -- a baby, two juveniles and two adults -- died at a "graveyard" in what is now the United Kingdom.