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New research sheds light on how the brain combines external information and internal memory to build a sense ...

The new coronavirus variant—first detected in South Africa, and named Omicron by the World Health Organization—has stirred up ...

The two largest soda makers in the US use their sponsorships of health organizations to bolster their image, ...

Two powerful tools for early Alzheimer's detection may fit in the palm of your hand. In fact, one ...

You've got a plan to pick up groceries for dinner on the way home. Right now, though, you're ...

When you take a photo on a cloudy day with your average digital camera, the sensor detects trillions ...

In 1881, a land speculator named Charles Dana Wilber wrote a book called The Great Valleys and Prairies ...

Left to their own devices, squirrels will gnaw away not just on acorns, but also on bone. And ...

We've all heard of people "aging overnight" after a traumatic event. Scientists actually have a term for this phenomenon: ...

Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has declared Zika virus "a public health emergency of ...

Mayors of cities across the United States are overwhelmingly concerned about aging roads, mass transit, and water and ...

United States lore has it that the first Thanksgiving was in 1621, when Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag ...

If researcher Elizabeth Petitti played two musical notes from her laptop, some people would hear the notes rise ...

The concept of peer review is central to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and to science itself.

Two physical features, among others, make humans unique: our way of walking and running upright on two legs, ...

The difference between living to 90 and living past 105 seems to depend largely on genes, according to ...

New research links supersized alcoholic beverages, such as Four Loko or Joose, to a higher rate of alcohol-related ...

Pregnant women who are exposed to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in drinking water may have a higher risk of stillbirth ...

Researchers find that drinking coffee, which is a source of antioxidants, appears to curb tooth loss due to gum ...