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Scientists Tracked the Sleep of 95,559 People. What They Found Suggests 8 Hours Is Only Part of the Story
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Your Sleep Schedule May Matter More Than Simply Getting Enough Hours

How long you sleep matters, but a large new study suggests that what happens during those hours may matter too. Researchers found that REM sleep, deep sleep and the regularity of sleep were each

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Scientists found a surprising link between where you live and brain age...
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Can Where You Live Leave a Mark on Your Brain?

Researchers analysing 2,826 brain MRI exams found that people living in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods tended to have brains that appeared older, along with lower total brain
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Mercury Has Been Shrinking for Billions of Years. Scientists May Have Underestimated How Much...
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Mercury Shrunk Far More Than Expected!

Mercury has been slowly shrinking for billions of years. New research suggests the planet may have contracted significantly more than scientists could see from its surface alone. A planet covered in
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Yet another reason to do something about your sleep deprivation...
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Treating Insomnia May Do Something Unexpected: Slow Biological Aging

Sleep is usually discussed in terms of energy, mood and concentration. A new UCLA Health study suggests that treating insomnia may also influence something less obvious: the pace at which the body
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This could have some very interesting applications...
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Scientists Are Working on a Speaker That Only One Person Can Hear

Imagine sitting on a plane and hearing an announcement meant only for you, while the passenger beside you hears something completely different. Researchers in South Korea have developed a compact

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This Strange Metal Foam Could Make Car Crashes Much Safer!
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This Strange Metal Foam Could Make Car Crashes Much Safer

Car crashes ultimately come down to a physics problem: how to manage sudden deceleration before it injures the people inside. What if one of the best ways to make cars safer was to fill part of them

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A fascinating discovery!
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Scientists uncovered a strange 'Alien' microbe that reproduces in a mysterious, explosive way!

Scientists off the coast of Scotland have documented a bizarre marine microbe that reproduces by growing new cells inside its own body until the mother cell ruptures. While this strategy sounds like a
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What if our emissions could be captured and turned into everyday plastics and fuels?

A new engineering approach by researchers at the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M University is making the carbon-recycling process cheap and fast enough for real-world industries to actually
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