Increasing physical activity to recommended levels over as few as 6 years in middle age is associated with a decreased risk of heart failure, according...
An international team of astronomers has used observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
A species of extinct hominin called Homo naledi was discovered in 2013 in a remote cave chamber of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. This species...
According to a new preclinical study by researchers from the University of Lausanne and Monash University, a diet rich in fiber blunts harmful immune responses...
A group of Montana State University microbiologists has discovered a new archaeal lineage living in the extreme geothermal environments in Yellowstone...
Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology....
A team of Indiana University researchers has reported the first evidence that non-human animals (rats) can replay a stream of multiple episodic memories....
A team of astronomers from the Australian National University and the University of Crete has determined the 3D structure of the interstellar molecular...
A new review, published this month in the Addiction, the official journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, shows that in 2015 alcohol and tobacco...
The Mars Helicopter, a technology demonstration that will travel to the Red Planet with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, will attempt controlled flight in the...
A Bell test, named for the Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell, is a randomized trial that compares observations against the philosophical worldview...
A team of archaeologists and philologists from the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, Germany, has identified the location of the ancient royal...
Astronomers using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) have found evidence that an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar called IGR...
An international team of researchers has discovered more than 30,000 artifacts at Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya, which is...
A new study, undertaken by a team of University of Exeter researchers using captive Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber), has demonstrated the significant impact...
WAY-316606, a compound originally developed to treat osteoporosis, has a dramatic stimulatory effect on human hair follicles, according to a study published...
Earth is surrounded by a protective magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, which deflects a supersonic stream of charged particles from the Sun, known...
