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At some point, all people with dementia must stop driving due to the impact of cognitive impairment on skills critical for safe driving—but when is the right time, and how should this sensitive matter be best approached?
Have you ever found yourself listening to someone share their good news and felt pressure to respond with excitement, even if you didn't feel particularly enthusiastic? Does that pressure feel even greater when the person sharing the news is your boss?
Fishermen along Latin America's Pacific coast are reeling in half-empty nets as ocean warming aggravated by El Niño causes tuna, anchovies and other top catches to migrate to cooler waters.
Scientific American spoke to the Michigan Senate candidate about how his background in medicine has shaped his outlook
As the planet changes, so will this nostalgia-triggering scent
The site, located on the island of Lismore, may have been established by Saint Mo Luóc in the sixth century C.E.
In 2012, I began an interview study with two multilingual language learners, focusing on their motivations for learning languages. It eventually developed into a nine-year longitudinal study.
Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately affected by climate change, have lost nearly 20% of their mass in five years, experts said Thursday, with 2026 registering the second-biggest melt on record.
People with depression who dramatically cut ultra-processed foods experienced notable improvements in their symptoms in a small preliminary study. Researchers suspect healthier eating may benefit the brain partly by reducing gut damage and chronic inflammation.
In a soggy field between Amsterdam and The Hague, farmer Sander Roeleveld plows a small white combine harvester into his crops, gathering a grain never before harvested in the Netherlands: rice.
Haze from Indonesian wildfires has blanketed neighboring Malaysia and Singapore for more than a month, closing schools and sending respiratory complaints skyrocketing.
The Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 may actively damage brain blood vessels and sabotage the cellular systems that remove harmful proteins. Researchers were able to reverse some of these effects in experiments, revealing promising new targets for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases.