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A new study published Tuesday in PLOS Biology suggests that mild electrical stimulation can boost arithmetic performance – ...

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BMI has long been used as a standard measure of obesity, endorsed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...

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We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957.

A protein long blamed for the brain damage seen in Alzheimer's disease has now been found in astonishingly high levels in ...

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years ...