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The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife - but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett

SpaceX's Starlink internet satellite constellation has become a prime target for Russia and China, according to a new report assessing the counterspace capabilities of a dozen countries over the past year.

Solar eruptions created a northern lights display in North America and Europe overnight, with more auroras expected through Thursday.

Listening to favorite music activates the brain's opioid system, which is involved in feelings of pleasure and pain relief, according to a new PET imaging study. Researchers found that music-induced "chills" are linked t...

Affectionate mothering in early childhood may play a lasting role in shaping personality traits that influence educational, professional, and health outcomes. A study of over 2,200 identical twins found that maternal war...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, and appears too big to...

A new study suggests that two widely used Type 2 diabetes medications--GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors--may help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Researchers analyzed Medicare da...

Music therapy is proving to be a powerful adjunct treatment for a range of conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, chronic pain, movement disorders, and mental health issues. Research highlights how music can regulate...

It is harder for our bodies to absorb key nutrients from plant-based foods, so some vegans may be short on essential amino acids for healthy muscles and bones despite eating plenty of protein

A weakening of Earth's magnetic field known as the Laschamps event would have increased the threat of solar radiation, perhaps requiring ancient humans to invent protective measures

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely close flyby in 2029 to learn how to deflect others like it

Feedback was pleased to come across journalist Taylor Lorenz's coining of the word "viralflation", as videos with hundreds of millions of hits proliferate across the internet

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Why is saying no to other people so difficult - even when we really know we should? Sunita Sah's new book Defy has some novel ideas about the interpersonal forces holding us back

Exposing the origins of the improbable - and at times scary - plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything Forever a disturbing but important book

Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to "mad cow."

Recent studies have revealed that electrons passing through chiral molecules exhibit significant spin polarization--a phenomenon known as chirality-induced spin selectivity. This effect stems from a nontrivial coupling b...

Opaque materials can transmit light when excited by a high-intensity laser beam. This process, known as optical bleaching, induces a nonlinear effect that temporarily alters the properties of a material. Remarkably, when...

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day be used as a self-repairing building material

Scientists have used an artificial circulatory system to create lab-grown chicken, which may improve its texture