Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn intense criticism—much of it deserved—for his stance on vaccines. But lost in the uproar is a ...

After Albert Einstein died, researchers studied his brain exhaustively, trying to find the source of his genius. Here are their findings.

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A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan from Rice University has developed a new material with unique ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm ...

A new study led by UC San Francisco researchers finds that chronic cannabis use — whether it’s smoked or consumed in edible ...

Because we are getting older, there are more and more people with dementia. Within a large national study, the BIRD-NL ...

The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that the mysterious universe-accelerating entity we call dark energy may be fading away. The evidence for this is now strong enoug ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 ...

For years, we've been told that sugar is a major culprit behind the global rise in type 2 diabetes. Now, emerging evidence ...

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