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A minimally invasive treatment called GAE is helping people with chronic knee pain get back to gardening, cycling, and other activities without undergoing knee replacement surgery. Early studies suggest the procedure can...

An audacious trial will test psylocibin in people over age sixty to see if increases plasticity in healthy aging brains. The post Can Psychedelics Reboot Aging Brains? Were About to Find Out appeared first on Singularity...

Human body size evolution was not a linear progression. Instead, a massive body mass explosion occurred 2 to 2.5 million years ago with Homo erectus, while divergent species like Homo floresiensis maintained a smaller, c...

A new review suggests that doing more exercise and eating more protein than current minimum recommendations may help people stay stronger, sharper, and more independent as they age. The goal isn't building a beach bo...

Autoantibodies may be disabling one of the body's anti-inflammatory brakes in some IBD patients, a new study finds.

A new study tracks children from age 1 to 10.5, revealing that screen time during infancy and school-entry age uniquely correlates with reduced academic performance and weakened working memory years later, highlighting c...

Researchers utilized long-range co-expression networking to identify 641 novel schizophrenia risk genes. By mapping how distant genetic variants coordinate across six brain regions, the global project moves psychiatry cl...

Selective spatial attention is controlled by an evolutionarily ancient circuit of inhibitory neurons in the brainstem.

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation after a single dose of psilocybin

Researchers at European XFEL, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Rostock University and other collaborating institutions have used high-precision experiments to demonstrate that the most widely used models for ...

Specific variants of the AQP4 gene interact synergistically with poor sleep habits to accelerate grey matter loss and alter cognitive function.

The human brain handles predictable situations by priming rapid responses to save energy, while treating surprises like an immediate software patch, directing intensive neural energy to encode unexpected events with vivi...

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to make spatially separated lasers synchronize and act as a single coherent light source-without extreme conditions or complex materials.

Researchers at the University of Twente and Utrecht University have packed rigid, rod-shaped particles into soft lipid containers the size of a living cell and watched the container and its contents reshape each other. T...

The brain undergoes a full renovation during menopause. Although these changes are profound, were learning that the long-term impact neednt be all bad

Researchers say a surgery that let pigs with completely severed spinal cords walk again may lead to human trials, and then perhaps even full head or brain transplants. Columnist Helen Thomson is intrigued but sceptical o...

Several start-ups have tried to grow seaweed to remove atmospheric CO2, but this could affect the levels of nutrients in the ocean and hamper other CO2-sucking processes

Divers in Papua New Guinea recently discovered a new species of carpet shark that can traverse low-lying reefs.

As we scour and scorch the Earth for deeper wells of energy, investors and government agencies are pouring billions into nuclear fusion research. The hope is that fusion may ultimately provide a virtually limitless sourc...

When does your brain reach adulthood? We're now understanding the many ways the organ continues tomaturedecades after society first deemsyou an adult

A woman and her partner had been trying to conceive for some time. It turned out that a rare allergy may have been hindering their attempts.

Physicists have long suspected that a peculiar quantum state lurks inside a class of materials known as kagome metals, but proving its existence has been elusive. Now, a team led by Yeongkwan Kim at the Korea Advanced In...