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Patients recovering from severe spinal cord injuries are more susceptible to immune deficiencies. Such deficiencies, known as spinal cord injury-induced immune deficiency syndrome, may expose patients to life-threatening...

Starting July 1, 2023, Australia will allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain hallucinogens in medical settings to treat PTSD and treatment-resistant depression.

A form of meditation focused on unconditional kindness can enhance memory recall in individuals with a history of depression. Participants engaged in daily ten-minute meditations aimed at promoting happiness, health, lov...

Early exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including parental drug misuse and mental health challenges, increases the risk of problematic cannabis use during adolescence. The study analyzed over 5,000 partic...

The site is one of the largest ever discovered dating from China's early Shang Dynasty.

Archaeologists discovered a lost Maya city hidden in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Marks on stone tools found in the Tabon Caves on Palawan island in the Philippines suggest they were used for processing plant fibres, allowing the creation of ropes, baskets and other items

Researchers have uncovered the intricate structure within a cat's nose that aids in their exceptional olfactory abilities. Through a 3D computer model and simulations, it was observed that inhaled air splits into two dis...

High lean muscle levels may be protective against Alzheimer's disease. The study, which involved genetic analyses of hundreds of thousands of participants, suggested a correlation between lean muscle mass and a reduced r...

Physicists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an innovative method of converting human hair waste into a functional material that can be used to encrypt sensitive information or detect environ...

A strange and unfamiliar view of Saturn has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to help researchers identify its smaller objects and structures

In 1538, the ground beneath the Campi Flegrei supervolcano rose by six stories. Then it burst.

As men get older, they can lose Y chromosomes in a portion of their cells. This could be helping certain cancers evade the immune system.

The SharkFest episode delves into the diets of the famed aerial-hunting great white sharks of South Africa's Mossel Bay -- and seals are barely on the menu.

The Milky Way's black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, briefly flared at least a million times brighter 200 years ago.

As we age, our muscles shrink, and now it seems a growing proportion of the fibres in them also become deformed - fortunately, resistance training may return them to better shape

"Simultaneous contrast illusions" rely on altering the backgrounds of images to change how we perceive the colors and brightness of objects within them. Now, a computer model may have revealed exactly how they fool us.

Scientists discovered Fanzor proteins, which work like CRISPR but are smaller and more easily delivered into cells, and used them to edit human DNA.

The search for planets outside our solar system--exoplanets--is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate t...

Constant monitoring of vital health signs is needed in a variety of clinical environments such as intensive care units, for patients with critical health conditions, health monitoring in aged care facilities and prisons,...

The purpose of Krause corpuscles, sensory structures in the genitals, has long been a mystery, but it now seems they contain neurons that respond to vibration and are key to sexual motivation and function, according to w...

The James Webb Space Telescope's new images of Saturn aren't finished, but they're still mind-blowingly cool.