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A new scientific review is drawing attention to an overlooked consequence of the plastic age: the growing exposure of horseshoe ...

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Cities may be approaching one of their most consequential design decisions with the wrong question. Instead of asking how to ...

Problematic engagement with smartphones, social media, online games and other digital platforms may leave behind a detailed behavioural signature—one that ...

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A nerve in the hand may be only a few millimeters wide, yet severing it can alter the brain’s detailed ...

The car is becoming something far more complex than a machine that carries people from one place to another. It ...

Personalized cancer vaccines are moving from an experimental promise toward a more structured form of immunotherapy, but the field still ...

A new study has revealed that astrocytes—long regarded primarily as support cells for neurons—can directly control the brain circuits that ...