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Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not ...

When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, ...

When did you last find yourself with some spare time on your hands? A lack of free time, or 'temporal inequity', could be ...

This week in science: bright blue dogs spotted in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; the pros of going gray; a kind of computer ...

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

In a rigorous, double-blinded controlled trial, 82 healthy adults over the age of 65 were randomly assigned to play either ...

Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity's oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.

Homing in on the junk-food pyramid to rank its most harmful members, researchers from Virginia Tech have discovered that ...

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, ...

In 2024, a quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber ...