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Specific intensities of exercise over a long period of time are associated with different aspects of memory and mental health.

Blood metabolites related to sugars were associated with older adults' global cognitive function across different races and ethnicities.

Researchers reveal significant differences in gut bacteria in patients with multiple sclerosis compared to those without the autoimmune disease. The study also uncovered novel mechanisms by which the bacteria may influen...

From how constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions to an analysis of what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand, this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for "achievements that first make people la...

Researchers in Egypt uncovered hundreds of gold and silver coins.

A robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which could be useful for delivering drugs into the body

Scientists have long hypothesized about this phenomenon, but this is the first time it's been directly observed.

A team of physicists has found that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be a strange hypothetical quark star.

A black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the sun is thought to be the closest to Earth discovered so far. It is orbited by a star that could host planets, from which the black hole would be visible in the sky

A never-to-be-seen-again view of Comet Leonard took top prize at the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.

A smart way of putting together lots of nanogenerators that exploit static electricity to generate a current could open up a new kind of wave power

An astronaut recently captured a stunning image of a "sunglint" that transformed the sea surrounding two Greek islands into a swirling silver mirror.

The world that quantum physicists study with a trained eye is the very same world that we non-scientists navigate every day. The only difference is that it's been magnified to scales incomprehensibly small and large.

Study finds subtle variations in the functional organization of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Researchers led by Associate Director Choi Wonshik of the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics within the Institute for Basic Science, Professor Kim Moonseok of The Catholic University of Korea, and Professor C...

Treadmill benefits: Six ways this aerobic workout can boost health

Last month, California became the first US state to ban the sale of combustion-engine cars after 2035. But its transition to electric vehicles will probably be tricky. The state's electrical grid is experiencing instabil...

Budding stargazers can save $160 on this highly-rated telescope set at Amazon.

Losing energy is rarely a good thing, but now, researchers in Japan have shown how to extend the applicability of thermodynamics to systems that are not in equilibrium. By encoding the energy dissipation relationships in...

These images are some of the winning and shortlisted entries for this year's competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in London

Amyloid plaques and tau tangles tend to accumulate in the brain as we get older, but at the most advanced ages they don't correlate with cognitive symptoms

Some women release a large amount of clear liquid from the vagina at orgasm, a process that is distinct from female ejaculation, which involves the release of a small amount of milky liquid. Now the source of both liquid...