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14mg of saffron extract taken twice a day for twenty-eight days improved quality of sleep in adults who reported sleep disruptions. Patients reported improvement in sleep following just seven days of taking saffron extra...

Infectious disease experts report between 40% and 70% of adults could become infected with coronavirus during the outbreak. In a new interview, Dr. Lipsitch, head of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Center f...

Preparing for the almost inevitable global spread of this coronavirus, now dubbed COVID-19, is one of the most pro-social, altruistic things you can do in response to potential disruptions of this kind.

Those white socks are there because of genetic mutations and domestication.

Coronavirus may linger in the body for weeks after people recover. But that may actually be a good thing.

Turbulence is everywhere--it rattles our planes and makes tiny whirlpools in our bathtubs--but it is one of the least understood phenomena in classical physics.

The Gregorian calendar -- used by most of the world -- was introduced to fix errors in the Julian calendar mostly having to do with leap years.

A second person in California appears to have contracted the new coronavirus through community transmission, according to news reports.

A recent case study report highlights the effects of LSD overdoses on three women, revealing the subjects experienced improvements in physical and mental health following their overdoses.

Microglia initially protects the blood-brain barrier from damage due to systemic inflammation. However, microglia can alter their behavior and increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, thus damaging it.

Boundary contraction may be as common as boundary extension, and whether something appears zoomed in or out depends on the properties of the image.