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Parents are often told to hold their newborns close to them, in contact with their skin, for as much time as they can. But does this "kangaroo care" really help babies?

An analysis of the lives of nearly a thousand people shows that a small group who had poor childhood 'brain health' accounts for the lion's share of social costs when they reach adulthood. Twenty percent of participants ...

The science-fiction flick isn't the only mash-up of linguistics and entertainment doing the rounds - video games are putting language at the heart of the action

A famine that afflicted China between 1959 and 1961 is associated with an increased hyperglycemia risk not only among people who were born then, but also among the children they had a generation later.

Slightest touch can evoke pain in patients suffering from nerve injuries. Researchers have suppressed this type of pain in mice. They applied a chemical substance to the skin which blocked the action of an ion channel wh...

A spinning, star-swallowing supermassive black hole can explain a superluminous explosion observed in 2015 --

(University of Würzburg) It is considered the German equivalent of the Nobel Prize: the Leibniz Prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft comes with a €2.5 million cash prize. The 2017 laureates were announ...

An ancient mammal the size of a badger may have used its bone-crushing canines and powerful bite to take down little dinosaurs, researchers have found. In fact, the little guy could chomp with more force, pound for pound...

A 2-kilometre-wide circle spotted during on an Antarctic ice shelf was thought to be caused by a meteorite. It now looks like winds and melt are to blame

Mice that had free-access to a running wheel were able to maintain ocular dominance plasticity after suffering a stroke, compared to those that didn't, new research shows. These exciting observations have the potential t...

(University of Delaware) The best road to zero-emission vehicles lies in fuel-cell technology, according to the University of Delaware's Yushan Yan. It preserves the advantages of gasoline automobiles, with low upfront c...

A study suggests that family income and mental and physical abilities at the age of 3 can predict who will go on to commit crime and have bad health

Zinc deficiency, not lead poisoning, may have been a major factor in the declining health of the crew on the deadly 19th-century Arctic voyage.

In 2015, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) detected what was characterized as a "superluminous supernova," the brightest ever detected. After further review, a supermassive black hole swallowing a sta...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) The chronic lung inflammation that is a hallmark of cystic fibrosis, has, for the first time, been linked to a new class of bacterial enzymes that hijack the pati...

Reindeer, mountain lions, deer and polar bears may all be feeling the pinch as the planet warms, new research suggests.

On average, Americans spend 50 minutes a day on Facebook. That's a lot of online socializing. It's also about the same amount of time workers take for their lunch break. Yet there's not nearly as much socializing then: 6...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare brain disorder that is challenging to diagnosis, but a new test could help.

The recent discovery of a planet around the star closest to the sun has raised hopes that life might exist there, but researchers now find that this world might frequently experience extinction-level "superflares" from i...

Although alcohol is believed to play a role in college sexual assaults, there is no evidence that male students' binge drinking per se boosts their odds of becoming a perpetrator, according to a study.

Lately, neutrinos - the tiny, nearly massless particles that many scientists study to better understand the fundamental workings of the universe - have been posing a problem for physicists.

Better behaved, larger brains, higher paychecks: a new groundbreaking study finds that Kangaroo Mother Care has enduring benefits 20 years later.