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The 19th century transition to coal in Britain was thought to be driven by a lack of sites for water wheels but there were plenty of spots left - instead, drought may have made water flow less consistent and reliable tha...

The same brain system that helps us to avoid danger is also activated during selfless, helping behaviors, allowing us to help others in danger.

Those with strong and highly reactive emotions benefit from feline interventions when it comes to stress relief programs.

Overexpression of KIF11, a gene associated with the structure and function of neurons, prevents and protects against cognitive decline in both mouse models and humans with Alzheimer's disease pathologies. Boosting KIF11 ...

Hemispherectomy patients who had a hemisphere of their brain removed during childhood can correctly recognize differences between pairs of words or faces 80% of the time, a new study reports. The findings reveal how the ...

A new study will explore the genesis of pain on a molecular and cellular level, with the goal of finding new treatments for chronic pain conditions.

While some deem traditional fairy tales to be outdated or sexist, researchers say fairy stories play an important role in teaching young children about social justice, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking skills...

Cats alter their behavior when their owner speaks in a cat-directed tone toward them, but not when their owner talks to another human or when a stranger addresses them in a cat-directed tone. Evidence suggests cats are a...

Results imply a linear relationship between blood pressure reduction and lower dementia risk in adults aged 69 and older.

When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, they can survive the intense radiation that hits the Red Planet for hundreds of millions of years

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, half the world saw the moon's shadow creep over the surface of the sun in the year's last partial solar eclipse.

Pet ownership helps improve the well-being of those who have low resilience to stress. However, an unhealthy emotional attachment to pets, where a person considers the animal to be more important than friends, can increa...

The sharks are following micronekton, which travel from the surface to the depths at dawn.

Artificial sweeteners have been shown to help people maintain their weight and improve their health, but they have also been liked to conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Nutrition scientist Allison Sylvetsky h...

Find out how 30 minutes of running can result in big health gains

Protons are tiny yet they carry a lot of heft. They inhabit the center of every atom in the universe and play a critical role in one of the strongest forces in nature.

Physicists have created the first Bose-Einstein condensate--the mysterious fifth state of matter--made from quasiparticles, entities that do not count as elementary particles but that can still have elementary-particle p...

More extreme rain has flooded 43 towns in New South Wales, 24 in Victoria and three in Tasmania and the abnormally wet conditions are expected to last until 2023

We ask the experts how upping your fiber intake could be good for weight loss

New recordings of sounds made by reptiles, amphibians and fish suggest that vocal communication has a common evolutionary origin in vertebrates

More than 240 skeletons have been unearthed from a former medieval friary cemetery, revealing a "snapshot of the community."

A ballistics analysis has raised new questions about the role of the US Army in the 1918 Porvenir massacre, where Texas Rangers killed 15 unarmed Mexican boys and men