Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, ...

A chemical that's been long used in soft, flexible plastics like PVC might be messing with the sex cells of some animals and ...

To better treat and prevent depression, we need to understand more about the brains and bodies in which it occurs. Curiously, ...

From the winding down of clocks to the death of stars, everything seems destined to eventually grind to a halt. But there's one really, really big thing to which this doesn't seem to apply, at all.

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It's spring and you've probably noticed a change in when the Sun rises and sets. But have you also noticed a change in your ...

Women going through perimenopause – the transition period surrounding the menopause – are more than twice as likely to ...

In recent years, standing has been touted as a remedy to a sedentary lifestyle, especially for desk workers who spend long ...

Scientists have long thought that the highest-energy gamma rays in space are forged in the intense furnaces of very active ...

Gout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but new research suggests genetics play more ...

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The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time ...