Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

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About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

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Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels in spacetime that appear in both Einstein’s theories and quantum physics. Recently, wormholes have been making a lot of headlines. Le ...

When Americans begin taking appetite-suppressing drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, the changes extend well beyond the bathroom ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests ...

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