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Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study. Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the UK explored the relationship…

When we daydream or revisit memories, a large group of regions within our brain "lights up," or becomes more active. It's referred to as the Default Mode Network (DMN) because it is more active when the brain is not focused on the outside…

About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost -- permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand -- bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate warming, have intensified tundra wildfires…

TAIPEI: The Chinese military held large-scale joint combat strike drillsstarting Sunday, sending war planes and navy vessels toward Taiwan, both the Chinese and Taiwanese defence ministries said.The exercises coincided with the visit of a…

Taipei, Taiwan CNN  —  China sent 28 warplanes across the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Sunday as Beijing conducted its first large-scale military exercises around the…

Quantum computers hold the promise of performing certain tasks that are intractable even on the world's most powerful supercomputers. In the future, scientists anticipate using quantum computing to emulate materials systems, simulate…

The strikes come a day after a top Ukrainian army commander warned there’s “no doubt" Russian forces will attempt to seize Kyiv as soon as January after failing in the spring, potentially from a staging ground in Belarus. Russian…

Researchers at Penn Medicine and Intel Corporation led the largest-to-date global machine learning effort to securely aggregate knowledge from brain scans of 6,314 glioblastoma (GBM) patients at 71 sites around the globe and develop a model…

A year-long study of the dietary habits of 9,341 Australians has backed growing evidence that highly processed and refined foods are the leading contributor of rising obesity rates in the Western world. The new study, in the latest issue of…

A lithium-ion battery photographed at a Volkswagen facility in Germany. Lithium-ion batteries are crucial components in electric vehicles.Jan Woitas | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesLONDON — A facility described as the U.K.'s "first…