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How orangutans respond to novelty in the wild

Humans like to discover. Presented with something we’ve never seen before, most of us will be compelled to explore and

Arterial stiffness is a novel cause of premature heart damage among adolescents, according to a new follow-up study. The study

Scientists have completed a deep analysis of the proteins driving cancer across multiple tumor types, information that can’t be assessed

In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically

Scientific journals and research papers are evaluated by a metric known as their “impact factor,” which is based on how

A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to hear, because the sensory hearing cells of the inner ear don’t regenerate

Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as people in their 20s, a new study

Bacteria draw from an arsenal of weapons to combat the drugs intended to kill them. Among the most prevalent of

No amount of air pollution is good for the brain, but wildfires and the emissions resulting from agriculture and farming

Patients with localised prostate cancer have a good chance of survival, but mortality rates among those with advanced, metastatic forms