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What prompts this lightning-like energy in pets?

Living in areas with access to water, or "blue space", has a positive impact on mental and physical health.

Lower birth weight in medically assisted reproduction babies does not appear to hamper cognitive development to the same degree that it does in naturally conceived children with lower weight at birth.

Men experiencing vital exhaustion are more likely to have a heart attack, according to new research.

MRI imaging is more adept at detecting fetal abnormalities than conventional ultrasound imaging.

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Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.

By Allison Kubo Hutchison Reproduced Wootz Damascus blade showing both a ladder and rose pattern made by Alfred Pendray. Photo by JD Verhoeven, AH Pendray and WE Dauksh. Material science and nanoengineering are emerging ...

Airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma induced by methacholine is partly due to mast cells, a new study reports.

Constant exposure to images of syringes and people getting the COVID-19 vaccine on TV and social media may discourage those with phobias of needles from getting their shots, researchers report.

In veterans who suffered a TBI, lack of sleep was associated with enlarged perivascular spaces and an increase in post-concussive symptoms.