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Taking Aspirin Could Be Doing More Harm Than Good

These results highlight how crucial it is to only take aspirin on your doctor’s orders and to hold off starting any over-the-counter medications like aspirin until you have discussed whether the expected benefit outweighs the risk. According to

Unlocking the Power of Our Emotional Memory To Cure Mental Health Disorders Like Depression and PTSD

It might be hard to believe, but this is a picture of a memory. In this image, the blue dots are positive memory cells, and the red dots are negative memory cells. Memories exist in the brain as networks of cells called engrams, and are stored

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Elon Musk closes $44-billion Twitter deal, ending months-long saga

Elon Musk has completed his $44-billion acquisition of Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, putting the world’s richest man in charge of the struggling social network after six months of public and legal wrangling over the

Amazon shares plunge on forecast of sluggish holiday sales

Amazon.com., shocking Wall Street, has projected the slowest holiday-quarter growth in the company’s history. The shares plunged about 13% in extended trading. The Seattle-based company, which reaped record profits during the pandemic, said

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While Earth enjoys an eclipse, a NASA probe is ready to ‘touch the sun’

The sun is having a glamorous year. It’s at solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle of

Scientists discover fossilized remnants of earliest known forest

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote

Wildlife worker dons cunning disguise to care for rescued newborn fox

A newborn fox recently delivered to a wildlife center could see an unusual sight when she grows

‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

A much-debated theory holds that 4 billion years ago, give or take, long before the appearance

MAISONS-ALFORT, France — Oxygen pumped through a tube in the intensive care unit, as the

For the first time in centuries, a gray whale is spotted in New England

Paul Dudley, an official in colonial Massachusetts, wrote in 1725 about a “scrag whale” that

SHANGHAI — The happiest place on Earth for cats might just be here, on Cat Island, a feline

As relations between the United States and China have soured in recent years, Beijing has been

Jonathan Uhr, immunologist who advanced cancer treatment, dies at 96

Jonathan W. Uhr, a medical researcher who expanded the field of immunology with studies that

Study: Nonnative earthworms are all over North America, and it’s a problem

Nonnative earthworms have colonized much of the North American continent, posing a threat to

SYDNEY — Lisa Akkoumi was enjoying a leisurely summer lunch with friends in a Sydney park

When photographer Suliman Alatiqi heard about Thai macaques — a type of Old World monkey — that

This spring, billions of bugs from two different broods of red-eyed, high-decibel periodical

David Mills, the internet’s ‘father time,’ dies at 85

David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to

Majority of land hermit crab species now use trash for shells

The majority of terrestrial hermit crab species worldwide have used trash as shells, according

NAIROBI — Scientists have made history by successfully transferring a rhinoceros embryo for the

Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight amid nuclear and AI threats

The world remains the closest it has ever been to the symbolic hour of the apocalypse, with the

Jon Franklin, two-time Pulitzer winner as science journalist, dies at 82

Jon Franklin, a journalist and author who intertwined detail-driven reporting and a

Nobel laureate Arno Penzias dies at 90; helped find traces of Big Bang

Arno A. Penzias, who fled Nazi Germany in childhood, settled in the United States and in 1978

6 studies to be retracted by scientists at Harvard-affiliated hospital

Scientists at a Harvard-affiliated cancer hospital are planning to retract six studies and will
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