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Axons can be shaped like strings of pearls, research in mice and people show. How that shape may influence brain signaling is not yet clear.

Henry the Nile crocodile will celebrate his 124th birthday at the Crocworld Conservation Centre in South Africa on Dec. 16.

A three-part complex based on the molecules that give “Conan the Bacterium” its radiation resistance may protect humans against damage from ionizing radiation.

The world’s first nuclear-diamond battery uses carbon-14 to power devices for more than 10,000 years.

Dopamine (noun, “DOPE-uh-meen”) Dopamine is a chemical messenger in the brain. It helps you learn and focus and even motivates you to achieve your goals. Though related to feelings of happiness or satisfaction, think of dopamine more as the chemical…

When you turn on a faucet, water flows one way: out into the sink, then down the drain. That one-way flow is important. If the flow reversed, clean water might become dirtied by germs or other contaminants. But keeping the…

“She still has one final gift for us, which is that she’s now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts.”

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and functional.

Atoms make up everything around us, but do these building blocks of matter ever actually touch?

Bones recovered from a natural shaft unveil a 4,000-year-old massacre of men, women and children, possibly part of a cycle of revenge killings.