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Flatworms can regenerate from almost any fragment – even a severed head can grow itself a whole new body in a matter of days

Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate

For people with abnormally high blood sugar levels, losing weight is often proposed as the primary approach to preventing full-blown diabetes from developing

The Southern Ocean has been dutifully gobbling up a century's worth of carbon dioxide and heat released by human activities, but when we finally let go of our fossil fuel habit…

Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets

For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders of our galaxy.

A new analysis of 51 fossilized hominid teeth found lead has haunted us for almost 2 million years – but modern human brains seem better equipped to deal with it than Neanderthals.

Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places, a researcher told AFP Monday.

Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be 'firestarters' for new human life, new research finds.

NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Aced Its First Flight

Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser

Unexpectedly, X-rays reveal Betelgeuse's binary companion is a young, Sun-like star

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too.

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell.

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early 'proto Earth', hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet.

A strange gamma-ray glow emanating from the heart of the Milky Way could be the long-sought fingerprint of dark matter particles annihilating each other, evidence suggests.

New study identifies a link between changes in brain shape and declines in cognitive functions, such as memory and reasoning.

A specific subset of children with autism may experience positive outcomes from taking memantine, a drug used to slow Alzheimer's disease, according to the results of a small clinical trial.

Microplastics May Be Tied to Vascular Dementia Cases

Scientists Discover Hidden Pulse in The Brain That May Warn of Dementia

A detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf 54 light-years from Earth deepens the mystery of phosphorus chemistry throughout the Milky Way

Watching 25,000 Dice Neatly Arrange Themselves Shouldn't Be This Fascinating

First Evidence That Plastic Nanoparticles Can Accumulate in Edible Parts of Vegetables

New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours

Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years

Giant megaraptor dinosaur species discovered in Argentina, with evidence of an ancient crocodile in its mouth

In 2007, something strange happened over the eastern Atlantic Ocean

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research.

Exceptionally long-lived 117-year-old woman possessed rare 'young' genome, study finds