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Altruism may begin in infancy, according to a new study. In a study of nearly 100 19-month-olds, the ...

Getting outside during the day, even when it’s cloudy, may benefit your sleep, research with college students suggests. ...

Adopting permanent daylight saving time in the United States would reduce deer-vehicle collisions, report researchers. The switch would ...

Ultrasound can be used to move, reposition, or break up kidney stones, all while the patient is awake, ...

New research shows how regenerative farming practices—soil-building techniques that minimize plowing, use cover crops, and plant diverse crops—affect ...

A new way of communicating lets devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards, and smaller wearable ...

The speed of vessels operating near where killer whales live is the most influential factor—even more so than ...

Most of us think of gratitude as a sweet emotion, but researchers say there's a downside to being ...

Toddlers as young as two understand that the noises they make can affect people around them—and know how ...

A new app that uses a smartphone to wirelessly test for sleep apnea may be able to detect ...

Where children live early in their lives can have a lasting impact on their ability to handle stress ...

The West Coast in the United States is warm and parched. The East Coast spent the past winter ...

Rather than asking people about the economic value of charismatic or endangered species, a new study asks city-dwellers ...

A new study is first to show that fishing likely worsens population collapses in species of forage fish, ...

In addition to vacation photos and cat videos, people also share details about their personal lives and feelings ...

It's not just the football players who have spent a year training. University of Washington seismologists will again ...

People are living much longer worldwide than they were two decades ago, as death rates from infectious diseases ...

Newborn jaundice: It's one of the last things a parent wants to deal with, but it's unfortunately a ...

New research shows that speech sounds stimulate areas of an infant's brain that coordinate and plan for the physical ...

What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying ...