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Exploding head syndrome is a real condition, and researchers are finally beginning to address this rare and little-understood sleep disorder as an illness worthy of medical investigation.

The percentage of boys in the United States who develop complications related to circumcision is less than 0.5 percent, according to a large new study.

Captive gorillas display fewer stress-related behaviors in response to rainforest sounds.

Severing the main connection between a person's brain hemispheres usually makes communication from one side to the other impossible, yet people who are born without this neural bridge have found a way around the problem,...

Contrary to what their name would suggest, sweetbreads are not sugary pastries. So, what are sweetbreads?

The antioxidant resveratrol -- found in foods and drinks such as red wine, chocolate and grapes -- has been purported to have anti-aging effects, but a new study suggests the compound may not increase life span after all...

Diane Ott Whealy started her seed bank to save her grandparents' prized seeds, but more than 13,000 varieties later it has taken on a life of its own

Turtles, like the humans who love them, are a diverse bunch. There are over 300 species of this ancient reptile, and each one has its own preferred diet.

Efforts to explore the deepest recesses of Earth's oceans were dealt a heavy blow last weekend when one of history's most accomplished deep-sea explorers imploded several kilometers beneath the... --

A large gray whale and a much smaller skipjack tuna each propels itself through water. Which is the more efficient swimmer? It has been difficult to compare propulsion efficiencies of animals of different sizes, like com...

Unique connections can form in the brains of people born with the two hemispheres of their brain separated, explaining how the two sides can communicate

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words hurt too. Victims of bullying live with high levels of a protein linked to heart disease and diabetes

The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway, researchers said today.

Every year, the Physics Central crew, our friends and colleagues, and thousands of students descend on Six Flags America for a day of physics thrills. During the most recent Six Flags Physics Day on May 2, we gave out ac...

An extremely advanced prosthetic arm -- sometimes compared to Luke Skywalker's arm from "Star Wars" -- has been approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, officials announced.

Parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are already collapsing and probably cannot be saved, although it will take centuries for them to disappear entirely

From the appeal of seven to a shadowy textbook-writing cabal, Alex Through The Looking Glass is a whistle-stop tour of entertaining areas of mathematics

A second case of a relatively new and deadly virus known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus has been reported in the United States, the CDC said.

About 3.3 million people worldwide died from causes related to drinking alcohol in 2012, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.

Palaeontologists have recovered the only known skull of a Deinocheirus, revealing that the species looked like a duck-billed cross between an ostrich and a camel

ABOARD THE R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON—In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 10, we were on the seafloor in the deepest part of the Kermadec Trench when all of the video screens in the Nereus... --

After 40 years of observation, NASA and University of California researchers agree that melting of the West Antarctic Glacier has passed the point of no return. It contains enough ice to raise sea levels ~4 feet, but cou...