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Central retinal artery occlusion can result in permanent vision loss. Effective treatment is lacking. We conducted a phase 3, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, controlled trial involving ...

Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you have a unified concept of “dog” that isn’t tied to words or images ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...

Panspermia suggests that life may not have originated on Earth but instead could have been spread across the universe. This theory opens new possibilities about how life exists beyond our planet ...

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If you ever thought you were going bonkers by believing some things existed when, in reality, they didn’t, you might find peace in knowing you’re not alone.

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

How can we tell if a depression treatment works beyond placebo? A new real-world method measuring placebo shows that ...

Almost one-third (32%) of UK newlyweds said they’d used AI tools to help write their vows, according to an Index Digital survey. Personally, I have to confess that stat gives me a bit of an ick. But ...

This moment of revelation is common to many people who don’t form mental images. They report that they might never have thought about this aspect of their inner life if not for a chance conversation, ...