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Much of the world’s efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change hinge on the success of the landmark 2015...

It’s well established that people of color suffered higher mortality rates and worse health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic than...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the importance wearing masks and disinfection of items has become paramount. As a result, there...

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a $1 million, three-year grant from the Department of Defense’s Kidney Cancer Research Program...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1, 2022 – The primetime television drama “This Is Us” drew millions of viewers to a compelling narrative...

Scientists studying mice from the Andes Mountains in Patagonia noticed something they couldn’t explain: the mice from the western side...

John Rawls, one of the 20th century’s most notable political philosophers, proposed a theory of distributive justice known as justice...

A new study reveals how a rare genetic mutation leads to intellectual disability. The P212L mutation in an enzyme called...

Australian researchers have explored the impact of bushfires on estuaries in New South Wales, Australia's largest state, finding fires can...

Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.Credit:...

Vaccinated people who were infected by the first Omicron subvariants have four times greater protection than vaccinated people who were...

An experimental combination of two drugs halts the progression of small cell lung cancer, the deadliest form of lung cancer,...

Chronic kidney disease and eventual kidney failure are incurable diseases that affect 13% of the U.S. population, particularly those with...

WASHINGTON (Aug. 31, 2022) — Researchers at the George Washington University have gained important insight into how the human brain...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has been awarded funding from the DOE Office of Science for...

In a new study, participants who engaged in small talk with others formed impressions about their conversation partners’ personalities that...

The study, carried out by King’s College London, Nomad Projects and J & L Gibbons in partnership with the Canal...

The risk of children being orphaned per COVID-19 death is highest in the poorest countries and those where people of...

A review of 22 previously published studies suggests that taking micro-breaks—discontinuing a task for periods of 10 minutes or less—is...

Pain is an important alarm system that alerts us to tissue damage and prompts us to withdraw from harmful situations....