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Experts warn: Smartphones before 13 could harm mental health for life

Owning a smartphone before age 13 is associated with poorer mind health and wellbeing in early adulthood, according to a global study of more than

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Scientists watch Parkinson’s protein drill holes in brain cells

A toxic protein forms dynamic pores in the membranes of brain cells – and that may be the key to understanding how Parkinson’s disease develops.

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The Sun’s hidden particle engines finally exposed

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing

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Why Alzheimer’s attacks the brain’s memory hub first

One of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease is the entorhinal cortex — a region that plays a big role in

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NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand

In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. i> X-rays from

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NASA’s Webb Telescope just found 300 galaxies that defy explanation

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA’s

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Our solar system has a new interstellar visitor: Meet 3I/ATLAS

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar

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Caltech breakthrough makes quantum memory last 30 times longer

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers

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Scientists finally pinpoint Jupiter’s birth using “molten rock raindrops”

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and

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Maui’s fires drove a 67% jump in deaths. Most went uncounted

New research unveils the true death toll of the deadly August 2023 wildfires which took place in Lāhainā, Maui, Hawaiʻi — and which temporarily made