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A Massive Iceberg Broke off Greenland. New Images Show What Led up to It

Clues to two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors emerge from genetic traces found in modern human DNA

Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree

The dementia vaccine some of us are taking without realising

When you eat may matter as much as what you eat for longevity and heart health

How strength training can overhaul your health in just an hour a week

Meet VO2 maxxing: The fitness ‘trend’ that could help you live longer

Quantum Entanglement Generated From Sunlight For The First Time Ever

Dolphins use tools to obtain fish in rare activity caught on camera

Over 60? These are the 3 dynamic balance exercises you should be doing now

Aditya-L1: Indian solar mission's new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries

The death of dark energy is a false alarm

Titan was called an ocean world for more than fifteen years, but a reanalysis of Cassini's radio tracking published in Nature has quietly taken the ocean away — the moon's tidal response lags Saturn's pull by about fifteen hours, which fits slush and smal

Fifty kilometres above Venus, pressure and temperature become surprisingly Earth-like and ordinary breathable air could keep a habitat afloat, but living there would mean building a sealed world inside sulphuric-acid clouds

Are People Actually Getting Dumber? Introducing The Reverse Flynn Effect

The largest ocean on Earth, bigger than all continents combined is shrinking slowly: Scientists claim it

Forget 10,000 steps a day: This is how many you really need

Ancient human relative cannibalized both adults and children in a cave in Spain 850,000 years ago, fossils reveal

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Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede

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Engineered enzyme erases a stubborn mark of aging by up to 70% in human tissue samples

In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years. Voyager 1 and 2 are now the only human-made objects in interstellar space, still operating, still transmitting, funded by a team of engineers some of whom have worked on the mission for nearly

Launched in 1977 for a five-year mission, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 remain the only human-made objects in interstellar space and are still transmitting data.

So THAT'S Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others

Recent scientific findings reveal that mosquito attraction is driven by a combination of biological factors and the insects' own memory.

Brain-shuttle biologics chart new paths across the blood–brain barrier

New brain-shuttle biologics are overcoming the blood-brain barrier to deliver critical treatments for Alzheimer's and cancer.

Spacecraft Heading for Asteroid NASA Slapped so Hard It Changed Its Orbit Gets Crucial OTA Update

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Voyager's signal now reaches Earth as a whisper measured in fractions of a billionth of a watt, fainter than almost anything our antennas were built to hear

Yale scientists may have found how Parkinson's disease spreads through the brain

Yale researchers have identified a two-protein complex that may facilitate the spread of Parkinson's disease between neurons.

NASA is keeping Voyager 1 alive by switching off instruments and heaters one by one—but it cannot let the spacecraft become so cold that its fuel lines freeze. If those lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that keep its antenna aimed at Earth, per

NASA is managing a critical power decline for Voyager 1 as it approaches a historic distance milestone from Earth.

Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever seen, and it shines with the light of a trillion suns

The Subtle Physical Clue That Could Indicate Your Dog Has Dementia

Veterinary experts are highlighting shorter walking strides as a potential early warning sign of canine cognitive dysfunction.

Scientists May Have Detected The First Signature of a Black Hole's Event Horizon

Scientists report the first potential detection of a black hole's event horizon, the critical 'point of no return.'

Solid-state material turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity, expanding solar energy potential