While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Symptoms of young-onset dementia have considerable overlap with those common in certain mental health conditions, such as ...

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a ...

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

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An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...