Kissing a romantic partner is a nice way to share an intimate moment – not to mention a hearty dose of saliva and tens of millions of oral microbes.

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Some forms of dementia may not be confined to the central nervous system; they may not even begin in the brain.

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In previous work, Stupp and his team developed a material called IKVAV-PA that they used to reverse paralysis in mice with ...

NASA is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Friday, replacing a crew that was evacuated early ...

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In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group of Europeans took the Inca ruler ...

A recently discovered brain network may be the core circuit underlying symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The network is called ...