Brain and Body
People who do fewer repetitions during high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts may get better fitness benefits than those who complete more.
A new review suggests that global climate change threatens parasites with extinction, which could have big consequences for ecosystems.
The first live record of the ruby seadragon, Phyllopteryx dewysea, a species never before observed in the wild, has just been published.
Scientists have produced the most tightly knotted physical structure ever known -- an achievement which has the potential to create a new generation of advanced materials.
Critics have portrayed ECT as a form of medical abuse. Yet many psychiatrists, and more importantly, patients, consider it to be safe and effective. Few medical treatments have such disparate images.
Stanford physicist Peter Graham recently received a Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for his new direction for looking for the most basic laws of nature.
NASA scientists are crisscrossing the globe in 2017 to investigate critical scientific questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.
Wearable sensors that monitor heart rate, activity, skin temperature and other variables can reveal a lot about what is going on inside a person.
A research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than previously thought.
Replacing one daily portion with poultry or fish may lower risk, findings suggest.
Researchers at Yale University have isolated the brain circuitry that coordinates predatory hunting, according to a study in the January 12 issue of Cell.
New research shows that not only can gas gather itself into planet-size objects, but those objects then are flung throughout the galaxy in a game of cosmic 'spitball.'
A multidisciplinary team of physicians published a case study today in The New England Journal of Medicine, describing the nation's first locally-transmitted case of Zika.
Heightened activity in the amygdala - a region of the brain involved in stress - is associated with a greater risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in The Lancet.
New research now shows that chronic consumption of a western diet leads to overeating and obesity due to elevations in 'peripheral endocannabinoid signaling.'
For over two decades, psychologists and communication scholars have been seriously studying the degree a person is able to correctly understand another’s unsaid thoughts or feelings.
Researchers have provided the first close-up glimpse of a protein, called MurJ, which is crucial for building the bacterial cell wall and protecting it from outside attack.
Scientists have designed a biosensor capable of detecting cancer antibodies in serum samples from both cancer patients and patients at high risk of developing cancer.
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth. New research shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy.
A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers.
Could managing the grazing habits of a northern species help cool the planet?