A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough ...

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The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led ...

That's why handwashing becomes especially important during the summer months. It might not be glamorous, but clean hands are ...

In an experiment involving 32 breast cancer survivors, a 45-minute session of either resistance training or high-intensity interval training resulted in a surge of messenger proteins in the blood.

Although humanity is getting better at sending robotic probes out into the Solar System to explore the places no human can tread, we're still very much on a learning curve.

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The simulations suggest that it could take between 7 and 12 years for global corn production to recover from nuclear winter, ...

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We may have new hope in the battle against Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have found that lithium levels in the brain are ...