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A large-scale Canadian study has found that older adults who sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBI) face a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, needing home care, or being admitted to long-term care. Researc...

A major study from Tübingen found that prediabetic individuals who normalized their blood sugar through healthy habits - even without shedding pounds - cut their risk of type 2 diabetes by 71%. Researchers discovered th...

Birds across the globe independently evolved a shared warning call against parasites, blending instinct and learning in a remarkable evolutionary pattern. The finding offers a rare glimpse into how cooperation and commun...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later.

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some matter previously seemed to have been missing

Scientists have developed a powerful new imaging method that reveals how immune cells in the eye behave long before visible damage occurs in diabetic retinopathy. Using a combination of a head-fixation device, contact le...

A groundbreaking study reveals that aging alters not just the size but the shape of the human brain, reshaping regions in ways linked to memory and reasoning decline. Researchers found that as people age, the lower and f...

A new study reveals that cannabidiol (CBD) can significantly reduce neuroinflammation associated with Alzheimers disease. In experiments using an Alzheimers mouse model, researchers found that inhaled CBD lowered the act...

Expect a modest-but-convenient display of "shooting stars" after sunset, with a chance of bright "fireballs," as the Draconids peak this week.

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einsteins theory of gravity

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?

Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to understand what the evidence on Alzheimers really means for him

Scientists have shown that neurons dont rely solely on sugar for energy - they can also burn fat. When energy demand spikes, neurons even create their own fats by recycling parts of themselves, a process dependent on a k...

Researchers have developed AI-generated visual anagrams - images that transform into entirely new objects when rotated - to explore how the brain processes perception. Unlike traditional optical illusions, these rotating...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over lights behavior, but many conventional desig...

Some victims of venomous mamba snakebites see their symptoms worsen after getting antivenom, displaying a different type of paralysis. A new study explores why.

A new machine learning method has achieved what even AlphaFold cannot - the design of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), the shape-shifting biomolecules that make up nearly 30% of all human proteins. These unstabl...

Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could m...

A growing number of researchers are calling for the end of BMI as a measure of health, arguing its outdated, misleading, and rooted in discrimination. The metric, a simple weight-to-height ratio, fails to account for fat...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained without this tool. The c...

Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light. Their discovery, published in the journal Lig...

Inside nearly every cell of your body, the tiny F1 motor works non-stop to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the universal energy source that powers almost every action you take-from breathing to running. While scient...