It may have untapped potential in fighting or preventing disease. But are we getting enough of it in our systems? A panel will discuss whether to increase the...
Paleoanthropologists know more about Neandertals than any other extinct human. But their demise remains a mystery, one that gets curiouser and curiouser ...
Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday ...
Nicholas Wade: A new report "leaves in disarray" the thesis that dogs evolved in East Asia, scientists say http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04dog.html...
The association of white with virtue and black with sinfulness is deep http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14119817...
Scientists have prevented epilepsy caused by a faulty gene from being passed down the generations in mice http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8178703.stm...
Looters who plundered one of Utah's newest troves of dinosaur bones got away with ribs, vertebrae and part of an ancient legbone they had to bust apart to...
A new study has found that overhunting by our ancestors, coupled with a sharp cooling event around 12,900 years ago, may have led to the mammoth's demise ...
Waking up in the middle of the night can be stressful, but it may have been the norm for people in the days before electricity. Nowadays we stay up way past...
People who have even slightly elevated cholesterol when they are middle-aged have a higher risk of dementia later on, researchers reported on Tuesday ...
At the Chongqing Children's Palace, experts are hoping to revolutionize child-rearing with the help of science. About 30 children aged 3 to 12 years old and...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.3 million to an interdisciplinary team that will investigate how people's oral health might affect their...
From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than...
Psychopaths who kill and rape have faulty connections between the part of the brain dealing with emotions and that which handles impulses and decision-making,...
A modern-day walking bat in New Zealand did not evolve its unusual habit, but instead retained it from an ancestor, a new fossil found in Australia shows ...
The once ironclad axiom that the wealthier a nation the lower its birthrate is reversed when countries pass a certain threshold of development, according to a...
Whole "chunks of life" are lost in extinction events, as related species vanish together, say scientists http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8188166.stm...
