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DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of kefir cheese, made from ...

A US standards agency has issued new guidance saying organisations shouldn’t require users to change their passwords ...

Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is questioning its true role ...

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain ...

Using more training data and computational power is meant to make AIs more reliable, but tests suggest large language models ...

For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist group. Why? And where do ...

A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But ...

Interacting with animals seems to provide emotional support to young people with a serious illness, even when the contact is ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...