Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

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Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn't roar at their prey. It's more likely that they chirped like birds, based on a well-preserved new fossil with an intact voice box. A team of ...

Research has also shown sleeping too long (meaning more than required for your age) is linked to health problems such as depression, chronic pain, weight gain and metabolic disorders.

Astronomers have found 11 unexpectedly cold hydrogen clouds hiding in the superheated turbulence of the Fermi Bubbles, in a ...

A new simulation study shows that higher influenza vaccination rates protect both vaccinated and unvaccinated people from ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

For the new study, scientists at Emory University and Baylor College of Medicine in the US tested it on cultures of human ...

According to new research, communication between the gut and the brain is sophisticated enough to be classed as a new and ...