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On the last of our 12 Days of Culture, a film about pioneering liver transplant surgeon Thomas Starzl is one of sacrificing family life for medical advance

PwC, the global consulting and assurance firm, recently signalled its entrance into the cryptocurrency world by announcing a partnership with decentralized lending platform Cred. Cred (previously Libra Credit) was founde...

The most distant celestial object ever explored may well have moons, and astronomers are trying hard to find them.

Researchers implicate a brain region called the paracingulate sulcus in the experience of hallucinations. The findings shed light into why some people are more likely to hallucinate than others, and provides a new target...

A new study reveals the role gut microbes play in protecting against arsenic toxicity.

Researchers have developed a new, wireless optogenetic device which is able to control neurons in the brain. The device could help turn off pain receptors and reduce the effects of some neurological disorders.

Your home contains thousands of uninvited bacteria. Should you be worried?

The world's richest quarry of dinosaur fossils is located in the American West, at Dinosaur National Monument.

From what to do about Einstein to tricks for survival to doing away with sexist neurotrash, it is looking like a good year for books

A new study reports sub-groups of people use their brains differently when imitating emotional faces. For those with schizophrenia, researchers found no categorically different social brain functions than those without t...

A new study reveals 10% of the adult population in the US suffers from a food allergy, yet 19% of people believe they are allergic to specific foods, despite their reported symptoms being inconsistent with true food alle...