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Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness.
What makes some people more likely to shiver than others?
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
Altos Labs, a new biotech firm with $3 billion in funding, has announced plans to combat aging. But what does that mean for human life span, exactly?
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.
The Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age teaches us about self-awareness.
A new study looks at why mysterious voices are sometimes taken as spirits and other times as symptoms of mental health issues.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo are on a mission to resurrect the extinct northern white rhino.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
Probably not. Even though we’re still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
Humans churn out about 30 gigatons (30,000,000,000 tons) of material every year.
Many workers moved home on the promise or hope that they’d be able to keep working remotely at least some of the time after the pandemic ended.
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” Frank Wilczek writes in a new book.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
An active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer in a laboratory study.
Andrew Wakefield turned away from science and to the tabloids to spread his fabricated data.