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People who experience schadenfreude, the emotion of feeling pleasure at another person's misfortune, when they hear a controversial celebrity is sick are less willing to take preventative health measures themselves.

Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere--likely in Asia--before colonizing Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Afric...

It was important either way, because the experiment that generated it was breathtakingly precise --

Snakes have anatomy that helps them hear, you just can't see it when they slither by.

(University of South Australia) Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via tiny nanoparticles to the diseased organs rather than oral treatment.

(King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) The chemical concept of aromaticity is inspiring new developments in the area of catalysis.