Distant prayers do not help people recovering from heart surgery and could even cause them more health problems, according to the results of a large and...
As the U.S. government debates major immigration reform, environmentalists warn that the proposed laws would also prevent animal migrants from crossing the...
The chemical warning signals produced by fear improve cognitive performance, according to a study at Rice University in Houston. Women who were exposed to...
Thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins published his groundbreaking book The Selfish Gene. Ian McEwan argues that it is part of a long history of literary science...
By implanting electrodes in the brains of patients, doctors seem to have successfully reversed some severe depressions — and provided a new way of thinking...
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg , Joshua W. Buckholtz , Bhaskar Kolachana , Ahmad R. Hariri, Lukas Pezawas , Giuseppe Blasi, Ashley Wabnitz , ...
Digging for fossils is for dinosaurs. Today's animal trackers are using genomics to reconstruct - and one day resurrect - the original hot-blooded beast. By...
University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Talk radio and blogs are taking aim at a University of Texas biology professor because of a published report suggesting he advocates death for...
LONDON (Reuters) - Premature babies can actually feel pain and are not just displaying a reflex reaction to a stimulus, a team of doctors and scientists said...
Noting the role of the Royal Air Force in saving his country during the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill observed that never had so many owed so much to so...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Fossils discovered in southern Utah are from a new species of birdlike dinosaur that resembled a 7-foot-tall brightly colored turkey and...
John Hawks talks about a paper that actually provides measures of male-male competition among Mandrills ... http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/life_history/ ...
Ants come in all sizes, from smaller than a grain of sand to larger than a thumb. Now, by rebuilding the ant family tree, researchers have discovered that the...
A team led by physicists at the University of California, San Diego has shown the feasibility of a fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes...
A few lazy rats are getting away with doing practically nothing while others do all the work. And no, this has nothing to do with what goes on in your office. ...
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