Chimp and gorilla brains resist weight loss with age — unlike human brains
The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life
Breaking down nerve-cell scaffold relieves chronic pain in mice
Results could help researchers to develop painkillers that are safer and more effective than existing treatments.
Unprecedented hole opened up in Antarctic winter sea ice
‘Rivers in the sky’ helped to keep an expanse of water roughly as big as Portugal ice-free.
The Solar System could die one billion times earlier than thought
Modelling suggests that the planets’ orbits will become destabilized inside one billion years once the Sun starts to shed mass.
