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When you think about the history of humans and cats, you probably conjure up thoughts of Egyptian pharaohs and their pampered pets. But now researchers think that cats might have been taking the first steps toward domest...

Touted as a promising alternative energy source for decades, solar panels crown rooftops and roadside signs, and help keep spacecraft powered. But how do solar panels work?

Some doctors have used the diabetes drug metformin to treat obesity in children, even if they don't have diabetes, but a new study suggests that the drug may not help non-diabetic kids and teens lose weight over the long...

Home In A Day wikihouse.cc On a cold, gray day in central London, Alastair Parvin is staring at a coffeepot, or what used to be one before he took it apart to clean it. The appliance lies strewn across an office table, a...

Children's risk for developing allergies and asthma is reduced when they are exposed in early infancy to a dog in the household, and now researchers have discovered a reason why.

Patients in a vegetative state do not respond to what is happening around them and exhibit no signs of conscious awareness. Now research has shown that the brains of patients in a vegetative state emotionally react to ph...

The bedtime you select for your toddler may be out of sync with his or her internal body clock, which can contribute to difficulties for youngsters attempting to settle in for the night, according to a new study.

Researchers found that two on-the-rise esophagus conditions are so similar that even a biopsy is not enough to distinguish one disease from the other.

Cancer researchers have discovered that a protein that normally suppresses tumors actually promotes the growth and spread of pancreatic cancer.

The dominant narrative in any climate change discussion is often the shrinking of the polar ice caps. According to this account, polar ice will disappear in the next few decades, leaving polar bears scrambling for the fe...

Exposure to "dog dust," or the dried flakes of skin that fall from Fido, may protect against developing allergies and asthma in later life by altering intestinal bacteria, a new study in mice suggests.

Named for its use in the process of koshering (or removing blood from meat) in accordance with Jewish dietary laws, kosher salt has a large grain size and lower sodium content per tablespoon than most common table salts.

Researchers have discovered what appears to be flowing water near the equator of Mars. The water may flow during certain seasons and while it may be tempting to immediately launch a research mission to these locations, t...

Reddit's front page of cat pictures and memes belies its diverse underbelly of subreddits -- hundreds of thousands of link-sharing sites within the larger site that cater to interests ranging from movies to My Little Pon...

An ancient "Snowball Earth" episode in which much of the globe was covered in ice could have been triggered by the weathering of volcanic rocks, which took heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Scientists now have a male to match the largest female spider fossil ever found, but the discovery complicates the original interpretation of the species.

Early human cousins, the Neanderthals, may have intentionally buried their dead, a new excavation suggests. Neanderthals might have had the mental capacity to conduct symbolic behaviors, such as creating graves.

Cats lived amongst Chinese villagers 5,300 years ago, new research finds. The kitties may or may not have been domesticated, but likely helped village farmers keep rodents out of their grain stores.

The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old hand-bone fossil reveals that the modern human ability to make and use complex tools may have originated far earlier than scientists previously thought, researchers say.

A megaflood may have washed across what is now Idaho nearly 50,000 years ago, carving a gorge like those seen on Mars -- a discovery that could shed light on ancient geological processes on both planets.

Are modern humans the only species that has ever created graves, tombs and cemeteries? New research suggests the answer is no: Neanderthals also may have intentionally buried their dead.

A remote Polynesian island apparently invented a mixed binary numeral system centuries before mathematician Leibniz, in order to facilitate quick mental math to distribute goods in their trading system.