Detecting dementia's damaging effects before it's too late

Patients with a rare neurodegenerative brain disorder called Primary Progressive Aphasia, or PPA, show abnormalities in…

Highly endangered Florida grasshopper sparrows reared in captivity are released

Three of the rarest birds in Florida took an extraordinary adventure this week, slipping out of…

Wait, is that video real? The race against deepfakes and dangers of manipulated recordings

It used to take a lot of time and expertise to realistically falsify videos. Not anymore. …

Catapulting spider winds up web to launch at prey: study

Just when you thought spiders couldn’t get any more terrifying. Click here for original…

A step for a promising new battery to store clean energy

Researchers have built a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery, a step toward a potential solution…

Facebook to pay US content reviewers more amid criticism

Facebook is raising how much it pays U.S. contractors who do some of its most taxing…

Measuring chromosome imbalance could clarify cancer prognosis

Researchers have found that higher levels of aneuploidy lead to much greater lethality among prostate cancer…

Flu virus' best friend: Low humidity

Researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even…

Echo chambers may not be as dangerous as you think, new study finds

New research shows that collective intelligence — peer learning within social networks — can increase belief…

Brain researchers seek 'fingerprints' of severe mental diseases

Findings from a new study of large-scale systems in the brain could improve understanding of the…