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Memory consolidation during sleep systematically favors older memories, Vanderbilt researchers find: hippocampal neurons ...

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Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins, etc) is releasing her first new music in over 15 years, since her 2010 ...

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Scientists in China have developed a new passivation method that has resulted in the design of a new perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell with a power conversion efficiency of more than 33 percent.

With unrivalled access, we chart the rise and fall of billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, who faces trial for one of the world’s biggest frauds ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors. If the idea of skin dust isn’t sitting well ...

This year marks 25 years since The Strokes released Is This It - the scuzzy, sardonic debut from the New York band that ...

In late 2012, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund forced the FBI, via FOIA lawsuit, to release internal documents on its handling of the Occupy Wall Street movement. What came back wasn't a few ...