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A new study reports physicality and political attitudes may be linked, for men at least. Researchers found more muscular men tend to prefer political attitudes that favor inequality, and the tendency to have positive att...

At the Shiru Café close to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, students can get a cup of coffee without spending a dime. The currency here is information. Students can get free coffee if they fill in an online...

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A new study reveals a history of binge drinking leads to more instances of drinking under stress and when anxious in males, but not in females.

Researchers report the reason many shun away from physical activity as adults may be rooted in childhood experience. The study reveals negative memories associated with PE classes during childhood may generate negative r...

Step inside the hospital of the future, where face recognition tracks everyone who enters and robots roam the corridors

An international team of researchers has used an unconventional imaging technique known as ghost imaging to make spectroscopic measurements of a gas molecule. The new approach by scientists at Tampere University of Techn...

A new study adds to growing evidence that your diet can have significant impact on your mental health. Researchers found people who consumed more fast foods had higher rates of depression than those who consumed a seafoo...

Researchers reveal the growth rates of a baby's brain circuits may help to predict the child's IQ, emotional behavior and cognitive abilities at the age of four.

Researchers report altruistic motivations and behaviors can be changed with the help of mental training.

This week is Baby Loss Awareness Week, but more must be done to help those who, like me, have suffered a loss, says Petra Boynton

Advances in artificial intelligence could lead to massive growth in energy use as smart machines push into every corner of our lives

A new brain imaging study reveals how the midbrain and striatum, two key areas of the dopamine system, become more active when a person updates their beliefs about the world around them.

Hurricane Michael intensified faster than expected overnight and is now headed for Florida. It was fuelled by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico

If a moon is big enough and far enough from its planet, it can host its own smaller moon, called a 'moonmoon' - and four worlds in our solar system fit the bill

A color developed by Egyptians thousands of years ago has a modern-day application as well - the pigment can boost energy efficiency by cooling rooftops and walls, and could also enable solar generation of electricity vi...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute Chemical Physics of Solids have written a review paper about magnetic topological materials in the family of Heusler compounds. The review explains the connection between topology, ...

The international collaborative n_TOF, in which a group of University of Seville researchers participated, has made use of the unique capacities of three of the world's nuclear facilities to carry out a new experiment ai...

A new study by scientists from the University of Bristol brings us a significant step closer to unleashing the revolutionary potential of quantum computing by harnessing silicon fabrication technology to build complex on...

Keeping warming to a manageable (but still dangerous) 1.5°C is possible, strictly speaking, but it will be the largest project humanity has ever undertaken

Richard Branson has said that his space flight company, Virgin Galactic, will go to space "within weeks". Here's what you need to know about his claims

How (and why) was the U.S. Air Force investigating UFOs between 1952 and 1969?