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Around 36% of people in England with dementia are unaware they have the condition, according to a new report from the Dementia Commission.The report suggests things health and...

You may not have ever realized it, but there are many trillions of microorganisms living on our skin – and puncturing the skin and inserting a metal object,...

Magic mushrooms can do some amazing things, from triggering vivid hallucinations to temporarily "dissolving" a person's ego and potentially even relieving treatment-resistant depression.Humans have long marveled at these...

In February 2000, Paul Crutzen rose to speak at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Mexico. And when he spoke, people took notice. He was then one of the...

A recent study has revealed a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and increasing the risk of developing dementia.In cases where picking at your nose damages...

The Moon is no longer pristine. We humans have been messing about up there for over half a century now, and our prints, dead equipment, crashed spacecraft, art,...

It turns out we probably haven't detected hints of alien moons in the Milky Way after all.New research shows evidence of two distant moons orbiting worlds outside the...

Google on Wednesday infused its Bard chatbot with a new-generation artificial intelligence model called Gemini, which it touts as being able to reason better than ChatGPT and other...

Scientists have singled out which protein forms the characteristic clumps of a type of early-onset dementia where no firm suspect was known before.This discovery reportedly transforms understanding of...

A new review suggests that having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related disorders.Australian researchers conducted an analysis of 17 studies published...

Betelgeuse, one of the most visible stars in our skies, has been behaving strangely over the past few years.The red supergiant, which sits in the constellation of Orion,...

The last time carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently matched today's human-driven levels was 14 million years ago, according to a large new study Thursday that paints a...