In 1643, Johann Wirsung was shot and killed outside his home, but not before he named one of the men responsible. One rumor ...

Julian Kirchherr had a hypothesis. The Assistant Professor in Geosciences at Utrecht University suspected that a significant ...

How much does your weight really say about your health? Probably less than you think. You could eat your five-a-day, hit the ...

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red ...

When actor Orlando Bloom revealed recently that he’d undergone a procedure to have his blood “cleaned”, many people raised ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. As birth ...

A case that first appeared in a medical journal several years ago has recently resurfaced in the media, highlighting an ...

How a feud in Russia led to modern prediction algorithms.

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Monkey Island is, perhaps unsurprisingly, home to thousands of monkeys. And when a major hurricane blew directly across the ...

Dairy milk is making a comeback -- and not a moment too soon for America's bone health. For years, calcium intake has ...

What if your doctor could, when you turn 65, order a test that predicts whether you are going to develop Alzheimer’s dementia in your 70s or 80s? And what if – in case the test comes back ...