On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

A ribbon worm picked up on a Scottish beach in 1864 is thought to be the world's longest animal ever found alive. Some ...

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of ...

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"Most dementia research understandably focuses on changes associated with [age-related cognitive] decline in later life. But ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Thousands of meters underground, in the chthonic depths of Earth's crust, scientists have at long last caught solar neutrinos ...

You should also be able to get a good show by watching the sky on the nights either side of the peak – clear skies pending.

The Beatles' song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the "hypnagogic state". This is the twilight zone ...

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The regular consumption of eight energy drinks a day may have contributed to a mild stroke in a middle-aged man in the UK.

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