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Matthew R Cooperberg, Aeon William came to me for a third opinion. He was 53 and healthy, with a wife and two teenage children, a busy job, and a typically hectic work-and-family schedule....

Gayoung Lee, Gizmodo According to historians, the Manhattan Project began as a...

Massimo Florio & Jessica Catalano, CERN Courier A particle collider is among the most ambitious projects a society can take on, and one whose worth is hard to capture in conventional...

Amber Middleton, Sci Focus If you're trying to improve your heart health, cholesterol is one of the biggest buzzwords you will likely hear. It is written on food labels, discussed on social...

Andrew Gregory, Guardian The 'Godzilla' of weight-loss drugs could help improve blood sugar levels, reduce inflammation and cut a person's body weight by a quarter, according to the largest...

Manon Bischoff, Scientific American "Either this is madness or it is Hell." "'It's neither,' calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, 'it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open...

Gina Kolata, NY Times Last week, the former senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse announced that his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer had

Alexia Kubas, AAS NOVA Isaac Newton suspected that the gravitational dance between the Sun and Jupiter would eventually destabilize the solar system, but modern computational research has...

Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Tech About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up...

Arielle Selya, ACSH Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control. Universities produce far more PhDs than...

Conor Feehly, Quanta I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what's in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I've navigated my...

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, ACSH Shaken Baby Syndrome has increasingly been branded "junk science," not because the medical consensus has disappeared, but because courts, some expert...

The European Synchrotron For nearly 30 years, a small fossil from Scotland has been celebrated as one of the earliest known reptiles. A new study out today in

Technical U Munich Getting up from a chair can be difficult for older people, often due to declining strength and coordination in the hip and leg muscles. To help with this, researchers at...

New York University Eating sweets while taking antibiotics may worsen the harm done by the drugs to the normal community of bacteria in the gut, a new study...

Lois A. Bowers, McKnight's Senior Living Heart disease and cancer accounted for more than 44% of the deaths of those aged 65 or more years and more than 39% of the deaths of those aged 85 or...

University of Copenhagen Four and a half billion years ago, Earth and Mars were born in the rotating cloud of gas and dust that would eventually become our Solar System. Yet exactly...

Dr. Susan Zweig, New York Post

EurekAlert! When it comes to mental health, it may not be how much time you have that matters, but rather, how you feel about the time you have. That's one key takeaway of a

Liz Seegert, AHCJ Each day, more than 11,000 Americans turn 65, according to the National Council On...