The research, which involved nearly 3,700 participants with an average age of 68, examined how long-term heat exposure ...

Scientists have pinpointed and described unusual subtypes of fat cells that may help scientists explain why gut fat is linked ...

All animals are known to have circadian rhythms, or body clocks, regulating activities over a 24-hour period -- also called ...

Uncover the mysteries behind smell with a new study on how humans perceive and describe various odors and scents.

According to the World Health Organisation, around 3.9 per cent of the global population has had post-traumatic stress ...

With over half the cells in the human body being bacterial rather than human, and over 99% of the genes in the human body ...

A European human rights body has ruled that Facebook’s algorithm shows gender bias when promoting job advertisements, marking ...

Anthropologists, social scientists and veterans from Arizona State University and the Naval Postgraduate School are the first ...

The progress of a human being through life might be thought of as a mostly gradual succession of changes from the ovum to the ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...