The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

Social media influencers claim that using lotion with magnesium promotes sleep. But there's little evidence magnesium taken ...

Rows of white porcelain cups line the benches, each one carefully and precisely filled with water from a huge stainless steel ...

For today’s students, college feels less like an intellectual journey and more like a financial endurance test. With total student debt doubling since 2008, passion often takes a backseat to ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but ...

Agscent is developing a non-invasive breathomics tool to detect fertility in cattle, building on earlier electronic-nose research.

At pivotal times, medical providers could have helped Alex. Instead, they labeled him an "addict" and chastised him for "bad ...

By comparing DNA from the archaeological lentils with those currently grown in the Canary Islands, Spain and Morocco, the ...

A new study from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has shown just how important having close siblings and best friends are to social and emotional well-being in early adolescence.

In a small persimmon orchard in northern Greece, scientists carefully open paper bags to release thousands of flies, in an ...

To train artificial intelligence (AI) models, researchers need good data and lots of it. However, most real-world data has already been used, leading scientists to generate synthetic data. While the ...

Researchers have created BioCog, a self-administered digital cognitive test designed for primary care. The test assesses ...