Research, Space & Discovery
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Josh Conway, Lifespan Research InstResearchers have established howa protein that is nearly absent in the literature,...
Park & Santos-Lozada, ConvIn December 2024, the share of South Koreans ages 65 and older surpassed 20% for the first time, making it what demographers like us...
John Nosta, Psychology TodayLongevity certainly seems to be the word of the day. There are longevity clinics, longevity conferences, longevity experts, longevity supplements, and a...
Brian Goncus, The SkepticScientific pursuits are often inspired by a very simply formulated question that has anything but a simple answer. For longevity researchers the question is simple...
Tudor Tarita, ZME ScienceA study of nearly one million UK adults found that people who preferred their tea or coffee "very hot" had about three times the risk of oesophageal squamous cell...
Devin Teichrow, MSc, Edge of EpidemiologyOn July 15, 1960, a kid from Coventry, Rhode Island, named Gerald Allen wrote "
Johnny Kampis, RCScienceFor decades, taxpayers have been forced to prop up an increasingly outdated broadband subsidy program with billions of dollars a year....
Marina Julienne, CNRS NewsTheir names were Suhkana, Kunnaniya, Lamasha or Hattitum. They were wives, widows, cattle breeders, accountants or religious devotees, and they lived in...
Karina Petrova, P-PostOlder adults who lived in socialist East Germany before the 1989 reunification show better cognitive health and slower mental decline today than their West German...
Greg Noone, Science FocusSince the first time aHomo sapienshit his enemy over the skull with a wooden club, humans have searched for new and inventive ways to dispatch their...
Reese & Damasio, Greater Good MagazineFor centuries, defining and understanding consciousness has eluded neuroscientists, philosophers, and doctors. Is consciousness what it means to be...
Pien Huang, NPRResearchers have developed a new way to install millions of human brain cells into mice, as a way of creating better scientific models for studying neurodegenerative...
Josh Bloom & Lynn Webster, ACSHTen years after the publication of the 2016 CDC opioid guideline, enough time has passed to examine what followed. Consider this a biopsy of a decade of...
Marlowe Starling, Quanta MagazineAround 700 million years ago (opens a...
Lasse Biørnstad, SciNorwayWhen the late King Harald V of Norway was buried on September 9, the ceremony included a long series of traditional rituals.On the way from the Palace to...
Sahas Mehra, SmithsonianIn the early 17th century, a refined version of the first telescope
Maynooth UniversityResearchers atMaynooth...
Univ. of California-Los AngelesWhen picturing a scaled, toothy Tyrannosaurus rex stomping across North America, building nests and eating other dinosaurs, it's easy to forget that...
U of OxfordChimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behaviour known as infant corpse carrying (ICC). It is widely documented, and many...