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Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

Creatine, the supplement popular with athletes for its ability to help build strength and power, is increasingly being ...

In one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of its kind, a research team led at UC San Francisco has identified the regions where dementia occurs most often.

You can debate all sorts of things about how the texture of American life has changed. What you can't debate is the sheer, objective, existential fact that Americans are more al ...

Look, we all think platypuses are weird. Just one look at these beaver-tailed, egg-laying, duck-billed weirdos makes you wonder how we're even both mammals. But I have news for you - whe ...

Mathematician Maggie Miller explores the strange and fascinating world of 4D topology — the study of shapes, or manifolds, that resemble flat Euclidean space when viewed up ...

In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [H ...

If you rub two identical balloons together, they both pick up a static charge. This strange and unexpected behavior has been documented in the scientific literature and remains fun ...

If you have ambitions to start exercising or get the most out of your exercise routine, there are a lot of flashy tricks promising to help you. But not all of them are supported by scien ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once ...