A team of European researchers has developed a prototype of a compact multi-laser-beam device that can read your heart’s vital signs like a supermarket...
A team of researchers at the University of Florida has found genes known to form heart cells in humans and other animals in the gut of the starlet sea...
Playing video games may cause changes in many brain regions, according to a new review of previous research.
Palaus et al collected and summarized studies...
An international team of archaeologists has provided a window into one of the most exciting periods in human history — the transition between Neanderthals...
Researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and elsewhere have identified seven risk genes for insomnia.
Insomnia is one of the most common health problems....
A new study led by University of Oxford researchers has found that alcohol consumption, even at moderate levels, is associated with increased risk of adverse...
The fossilized remains of at least five individuals discovered at the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco have been dated at 315,000 years,...
New research suggests that coffee and herbal tea consumption may protect against liver fibrosis, estimated as the degree of liver stiffness, which is high...
The omentum is an important immune organ that serves as a first line of defense against toxins and infection, according to a review paper published online...
Researchers have discovered a mechanism that controls the formation and function of plate-like nanocrystals that play a critical role in bone composition....
A Vanderbilt University-led team of archaeologists has made a remarkable discovery in Peru: thousands of 15,000- to 10,000-year-old artifacts, including...
An international team of paleoanthropologists, led by Professor Madelaine Böhme of the University of Tübingen, Germany, has analyzed 7.2 million-year-old...
Consuming moderate amounts of chocolate with high cocoa content was associated with lower risk of being diagnosed with atrial fibrillation — a common...
An analysis of song lyrics from 1960 through 2008 reveals that male artists sing about both romantic love and sex more often than female artists. However,...
After decades of research aiming to understand how DNA is organized in our cells, a team of researchers from the Gladstone Institutes, the Massachusetts...
A team of scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has identified the cells that directly give rise to hair as well as the mechanism...
According to a new study published in the journal Social Development, pet dogs provide valuable social support for children when they’re stressed.
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Researchers digging at the Cerutti Mastodon site, an archaeological site from the early late Pleistocene epoch near San Diego, California, found animal...
