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A new study reveals ILC2 cells in the nervous system can halt immune response to infections that cause inflammation.

Researchers report allowing children to taste alcohol may lead to an increased risk of developing drinking problems during late adolescence.

In the myth about the Tower of Babel, people conspired to build a city and tower that would reach heaven. Their creator observed, "And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." According ...

Children who experience persistent allergies to cow's milk may remain shorter and lighter throughout pre-adolescence when compared with children who are allergic to peanuts or tree nuts, according to a retrospective char...

Physicist Marcelo Gleiser muses over the paradoxes of scientific progress --

Smiles can increase, or decrease, physical stress depending on how we perceive them, researchers report.

For one woman in the U.K., a dog scratch turned into a much bigger ordeal than she could've expected.

Russia could soon be able to conduct nuclear strikes all over the world without any chance of being intercepted. Here's how we got to this point.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) The first direct comparison of in vitro and in vivo screening techniques for identifying nanoparticles that may be used to transport therapeutic molecules into cells shows that testing i...