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Only 2% of Alzheimer’s is 100% genetic. The rest is up to your daily habits.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.
Most American men who die by suicide do not have any known history of mental health problems. So, what is to blame?
Fossils of Australopithecus in a South African cave are one million years older than previously thought. This challenges the consensus that humans first evolved in East Africa.
82% of professionals say they'd take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.
Fulfillment at work isn’t about finding your passion; it’s about cultivating the relationships that create a sense of belonging.
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
Here's why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.