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Remember the good old days?
Today, people can expect to live six years longer than their grandparents, on average.
Scientists have identified new factors that contribute to myopia. Spending more time outside is still the best thing a child can do to cut back the risks.
Zooming in on the secrets of the brain.
"Our goal is no death, no scar, and no pain," adds Marc Jeschke, paper co-author. "With this approach we come closer to no death and no scar."
A story about metabolism, circadian rhythms, and calories.
It's no cure but the treatment could finally allow people with celiac to eat gluten.
Things are becoming more and more concerning.
For hawks, the secret is out: The big city has a lot of food to offer.
No more peg legs on the high seas, yarr!
The origin of these artists, however, remains a mystery.
The same should happen six billion years from now when the Milky Way merges with Andromeda.
They move their vocal tract in a completely new way.
Bird-brain? Hardly an insult.
"What I'd like to say to parents is that with exposure it does get easier over time," says one of the paper's authors.
Taste trumps all!
Finally some good news about the climate for a change!
Two of my favorite things combined: pastry and science.
It's like a battery, but flowy. And it works with heat.
Sleep and hydration in the body seem to be linked. If you're a short sleeper, drink plenty of water in the morning.
"All kinds of things have gone wrong" with the internet, says Berners-Lee.
It's an evolutionary arms race.
The drugs we take are reaching natural ecosystems, and moving up the food chain.
It also had a keen sense of smell.
We now know more about how the brain's hemispheres sync up.
NASA's space telescope was looking for new stars when it came across a happy accident.
Pollution is a silent killer -- and it's affecting almost all the planet's children.
2,000 years before the Mongolians conquered Asia and Europe, they conquered dairy-making.
Antidiabetes medication could reduce Alzheimer's severity.
The Tesla electric car has exceeded its warranty mileage more than 10,000 times.
How can people drink this stuff in the first place is beyond me.
More evidence that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have a negative environmental impact.
There is little reason for optimism here -- but conservation efforts can still make a difference.
The findings are still preliminary, but they do suggest that mothers should abstain a bit before and during pregnancy.
Researchers found four times more predatory birds around areas without wind farms compared to those that have.
Tar may have been the straw that broke Europe's back.
Individuals with autism hear much more than regular people -- and music seems to help them communicate better.
One of the most ambitious projects ever attempted in science.
A remarkable medical breakthrough that might one day put an end to many forms of paralysis.
Lighter bodies were seen as more self-confident while heavier bodies were associated with negative personality traits such as laziness.
Adelle is surely rolling somewhere around there.
Pocillopora damicornis -- one of the most abundant and widespread reef-building corals in the world -- may help us better understand how anthozoans deal with stress.
It changes very fast.
Don't throw your dairy away just yet, though.
The South American cameloid has antibodies that offer protection against most influenza strains.
Well this finding will definitely rattle some spirits.
They live with us, but they're not domesticated.
However, their mothers still too care of them as best of they could.
Still no aliens. But this is definitely a cool find!
Ocean life is in bigger trouble than we thought.
