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Enormous, shadowy figures in hats and cloaks have haunted the California coast for more than 300 years. What are they?

Researchers have discovered that heparanase, HPSE, a poorly understood protein, is a key regulator of cells' innate defense mechanisms.

Study sheds light on what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form associated with CJD and Kuru.

A person's natural level of anxiety may have a significant impact on results for lab-based studies of emotion and anxiety.

Adding icosapent ethyl, a triglyceride-lowering medication that is high in the omega 3 fatty acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, in combination with statins helped to reduce stroke risk by 36% in those with cardiovascular disea...

Mouse study reveals maternal exercise during pregnancy reduced the transmission of metabolic disorders from obese parents, whether the disorder was apparent in the father or mother.

The chemicals that tore a hole in the ozone layer are set to make a comeback in the late 21st century, in a process accelerated by climate change.

Scientists have harnessed microfluidic organs-on-chip technology to model the different anatomical sections of the mouse intestine and their symbiosis with a complex living microbiome in vitro. In a comparative analysis ...

One day soon, a woman's first trip to the doctor after conceiving may include a prescription for an exercise program.

When the ventral tegmental area was stimulated, monkeys were better able to identify details associated with subconscious visual stimuli they were exposed to.

Early life stress induces epigenetic modifications in D2-type medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens, increasing the susceptibility to stress in adulthood.

Using characters from "Game of Thrones", researchers investigated what happens in the brain when people immerse themselves in fiction. The study found the more people became immersed in a story, the more they "became" th...

That's one theory for how the walrus wound up so far from home.

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Often overlooked as just a mark of identity, fingerprints actually give us our precise sense of touch through nerve endings in the fingerprint ridges

Industrial automation raises wages for men and women because of productivity increases, but could erode progress made over recent years to narrow the gender pay gap

Beijing and northern China have been hit with one of the worst sandstorms in decades which has increased air pollution concentrations to dangerous levels.

Our early human ancestors ate more meat than their hominin forerunners – and some researchers think their hunting strategies offer a clue to how we evolved our intelligence

The NANOGrav Collaboration recently captured the first signs of very low-frequency gravitational waves. Prof. Pedro Schwaller and Wolfram Ratzinger analyzed the data and, in particular, considered the possibility of whet...

A home-based parenting program to prevent childhood behavior problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers and, in some cases, just 12 months old, has proven highly successful during its...

Researchers have now presented results that may change our basic view of how type 2 diabetes occurs. Their study indicates that free fatty acids (FFAs) in the blood trigger insulin release even at a normal blood-sugar le...

A research team has developed near-infrared (NIR) light triggered drug delivery system.