Few people enjoy their first sip of coffee, yet millions come to crave it. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, say they have identified...
It is one of the first facts students learn about the brain, and one of the strangest: the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, and the...
Roughly one in 14 adults in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States says someone has made, shared or threatened to share sexually explicit...
Scientists have identified a receptor on sensory nerves that appears to detect a fatty-acid byproduct found at high levels in psoriasis skin, and blocking...
Humans and chimpanzees share more than 96% of their protein-coding DNA, yet human brains are roughly three times larger and far more complex. New research...
Researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School have produced the most comprehensive portrait to date of the ‘average’ human genome, drawn from...
People who drink tea regularly appear less likely to develop heart and vascular disease than people who don’t, according to a new study published today...
The ‘love hormone’ oxytocin may rise and fall in tandem in cats and the people who live with them, according to a new study published in the journal...
A new review paper published in the journal Nutrition Research Reviews points to nutrients in the nut that play roles in sleep biology.
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Vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla its familiar taste, may have a future in treating wounds that refuse to heal, according to a review paper published...
Canadian health researchers are urging the country to choose permanent standard time over permanent daylight saving time if it ends the twice-yearly clock...
Glucosamine, a widely used over-the-counter supplement for joint pain, may worsen outcomes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias,...
New research led by the University of Chicago found that nations with more domestic cats tended to report higher levels of happiness, while greater exposure...
Clostridium immunis, a human gut bacterium, secretes a large sugar molecule that can shrink visceral fat and curb weight gain in mice, according to a paper...
Sitting next to a loved one doesn’t just feel good, it may make the body work less hard, according to a new study that measured blood sugar, skin temperature...
Scientists have long treated the brain as a single organ that grows from one pool of early cells. Stanford University neuroscientist Kyle Loh and colleagues...
New research led by University of the Witwatersrand and University of Southern California paleoanthropologists sheds more light on one of the most debated...
Researchers have identified more than 1,200 locations in the human genome associated with personality traits, offering the most detailed look yet at the...
