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The skeleton belongs to the world’s smallest cetacean, the group that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Vaquitas ...

Clouds influence the climate by controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth and by absorbing and emitting heat. Over the ...

Lead in ancient ink could help researchers read the Herculaneum papyri, Roman scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

Aging appears to make retinal support cells far less willing to transform into new neurons, complicating efforts to regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as glaucoma. Credit: Shutterstock ...

In a small Cleveland Clinic trial, patients who received the highest dose still had roughly half their original level of LDL, ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects attention and impulse control, while autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ...

Often more than 100 million times dimmer than objects visible to the unaided eye, TNOs are so small that even with NASA’s ...

The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid ...

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

A compound known as TOFA appears to fight metabolic disease by pushing cells to use more energy rather than suppressing ...

Older adults with more fragmented “traveling” sleep waves tended to show both greater tau pathology and poorer memory. Credit ...