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Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

A rare way cells survive extreme stress has just been decoded, with implications reaching far beyond the animal kingdom.

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Living organisms quietly emit light. This glow is real, measurable, and tied to life itself. Researchers at the University of ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

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