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Listening to music into old age could reduce the risk of dementia by almost 40 percent, a new study has found.

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The dawn of the Bronze Age was a tumultuous time for many human societies, as the social order of the preceding Copper Age ...

A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may ...

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There's an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible.

To study the inner workings of an atom's nucleus, scientists have traditionally relied on sophisticated particle colliders to ...

Picturing how our species might appear in the far future can invite wild speculation over standout features such as height, ...