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Citations Y. Lin et al. Quantifying the population-level impact of insomnia on dementia among older adults in the United States.…

Stinging clouds of tear gas explode from beneath a car full of children, forcing them to flee into the snowy…

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a computer screen. The…

Positive thinking may boost the body’s defenses against disease. Increasing activity in a brain region that controls motivation and expectation,…

For one population of whales, teamwork makes the dream work. Decades after commercial whaling nearly drove them to extinction, a…

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The length of your life may depend more upon your genes than scientists thought. Once you remove from consideration events…

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears living 800 miles north…

Whale hunting began far earlier — and much farther south — than scientists previously suspected. Five-thousand-year-old whalebone harpoons and other…

A new deep-learning AI model may help scientists better decipher the plot of the genetic instruction book and learn how…

When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy fats” at the…

After a heart attack, the heart “talks” to the brain. And that conversation may make recovery worse. Shutting down nerve…