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The sprawling US health care industry has trouble managing patient information: Every doctor, medical office, hospital, pharmacy, therapist and insurance company needs different pieces of data to properly care for patien...

A new study reports tidying up and greening vacant lots in urban areas, can have a positive influence on the mental health of local residents. Researchers say people who lived within quarter of a mile of greened lots had...

Researchers say teens who start drinking prior to age 15 and who also binge drink are more likely to have memory problems as adults. Additionally, early binge drinking may indicate later risk for developing alcoholism.

Researchers have identified novel neural pathways that help regulate sleep and wakefulness.

According to researchers, people find it easier to lie in a foreign language than their native tongue.

A new study reports children who exhibit excessive self control and have tendencies toward perfectionism are twice as likely to develop OCD by their teenage years. Researchers report perfectionist children often have sma...

Video footage shows the "Man of the Hole" chopping trees in the Amazon.

The sun's size changes throughout its 11-year cycle of magnetic activity, and measuring that growth may help us figure out what's going on inside

What kind of sea monster is this?

Researchers report applying ultrasound to the whole brain improves cognitive dysfunction in mouse models of dementia. A clinical trial is currently underway to test the effectiveness in humans with the neurodegenerative ...

It's difficult to know who will like a film, so 20th Century Fox have built an AI that watches movie trailers and predicts who's most likely to go see it

A woman in England learned the hard way that it's not safe to treat a foot fungus infection by covering it with slices of raw garlic, according to a new report of the woman's case.

Occasional drinking during pregnancy may affect IQ, according to a study that tested newborn babies' faeces to see if their mothers had consumed alcohol

Ninety-five burials found in Texas likely belong to African Americans who were forced to work on plantations in the state's convict-leasing system.

An international team of researchers extended their results from a previous study to directly measure the cosmic-ray all-electron (electron + positron) spectrum in an energy range from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV with the Calorime...

A lower proportion of boys were born nine months after Japan's three worst earthquakes in recent history, suggesting stress makes it harder to conceive males

Which unfortunate animal will wander too close to this ugly burrow fish's horrible mouth first?

Watch a movie backwards and you'll likely get confused--but a quantum computer wouldn't. That's the conclusion of researcher Mile Gu at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore an...

The confederate sub sank with all crewmembers still at their posts, suggesting they never saw their demise coming.

A change.org petition is asking for a taste of the red liquid found in a massive Egyptian sarcophagus.

It's a totally tubular invasion.

A Colorado boy has an extremely rare condition that's causing his skin to harden "like stone," his parents say.