The awe-inspiring visuals of the Aurora Borealis have fascinated humanity for centuries, but its most enduring mystery lies not in what we see but what some have claimed to hear for ge ...

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University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker ...

At some early point in Earth's history, a collection of increasingly complex chemicals performed a new trick. They somehow transformed themselves, with help from a jolt of energy, into an ...

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Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, ...

The Andromeda Paradox, originally from Roger Penrose, is a brain-melting thought experiment that brings up the question of ...