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Scientists have redesigned zinc oxide particles to create a mineral sunscreen that protects against ultraviolet radiation without leaving such a noticeable white cast. The SPF 30 formula could make sunscreen easier and m...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a source of food, then built wooden traps to catch them

Scientists are testing two promising ways to destroy PFAS, the stubborn forever chemicals that can accumulate in water and resist normal treatment. One method uses collapsing vapor bubbles to generate extreme heat and re...

Excitement around the idea that GLP-1 drugs can prevent cancer is running well ahead of the evidence, an expert explains.

A new study evaluates the historical capacity debates and architectural frameworks linking working memory to conscious awareness, presenting an alternative "Spectrum Model" of human memory encoding.

The therapeutic efficacy of anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy against intracranial gliomas requires a distal B-cell and antibody response initiated inside the tumor-draining deep cervical lymph nodes.

The inevitable leakage of energy and information from a quantum system into its surrounding environment is the enemy of quantum technology. Now, researchers have demonstrated that it can be exploited to generate entangle...

Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.

A 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet.

A new AI-powered blood test could give people a remarkably early warning of serious heart and circulation problems. Developed by researchers at the University of Hong Kong, CardiOmicScore analyzes thousands of proteins a...

The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes. The dust contains complex carbon-rich molecules built from elements essential to life and produces infrared signal...

There are a few contenders for the world's oldest weapon, and one is over 400,000 years old.

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Scientists may have uncovered one reason coffee is repeatedly associated with healthier aging and lower disease risk. Compounds in coffee appear to activate NR4A1, a receptor that helps protect cells from stress, inflamm...

Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved. The discovery ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, rather than sulfur in...