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This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors.Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m…

This article is part of “Innovations In: Alzheimer’s Disease” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Eisai.When Juli comes home after…

Doctors have developed special eye drops for people with longsightedness that could replace the need for reading glasses or surgery.Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have…

Universities are cutting back on vital research, with world-leading work on deadly conditions such as cancer and heart disease under threat from an erosion in funding…

US drugmaker Merck has scrapped a £1bn London research centre and is laying off 125 scientists this year, in a big blow to the country’s important…

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine…

The cry of a distressed baby triggers a rapid emotional response in both men and women that is enough to make them physically hotter, researchers say.Thermal…

The surge in the use of disposable face masks during the Covid pandemic has left a chemical timebomb that could harm humans, animals and the environment,…

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has…

1. MedicineDoctors in Madrid hailed a new pill for patients with high blood pressure resistant to existing medication as a “gamechanger” and a “triumph of science”.Globally,…