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A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study.

Brain-monitoring wearables have caught the internet’s fancy after Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal’s appearance on a podcast ...

A recent study published in the January 2026 edition of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy determined that the popular artificial sweetener aspartame may harm the heart and brain. When administering to ...

According to a new scientific hypothesis, alien civilisations may only become detectable at the moment of their collapse.

Go ahead and get a good whiff of your own farts — scientists say it could help guard against Alzheimer’s. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that hydrogen sulfide — the rotten ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large... Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e ...