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A new study finds that humans and AI spot different kinds of deepfakes — hinting at the need to team up to fight them.

Not taking active measures to rein in the self-sabotage during the formative years of early adulthood can have repercussions in people’s professional and personal lives almost two decades later, the ...

A modeling study of Norway, which has high HPV vaccination coverage and uniform cervical cancer screening, suggests fewer ...

Nearly 1 in 8 dementia cases — about half a million nationwide — may be linked to insomnia. The new findings, reported December 27 in the Journals of Gerontology: Series A, add weight to growing ...

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Thinking positive increased a specific brain region's activity and might have heightened immune response after a shot.

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Humpback whales are teaching each other a feeding technique called bubble netting, and it's helping a Canadian population recover from whaling.

Senior writer Tina Hesman Saey is a geneticist-turned-science writer who covers all things microscopic and a few too big to be viewed under a microscope. She is an honors graduate of the University of ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...