Hierarchies exist across all human and animal societies, organized by what behavioral scientists refer to as dominance. Dominant individuals tend ...

Philadelphia, August 16, 2018 High maternal levels of the stress hormone cortisol during pregnancy increase anxious and depressive-like behaviors in ...

A recent study conducted in the University of Jyväskylä suggests that resistance training improves exercise motivation and contributes to making ...

In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a method of diagnosing a broad range ...

Credit: Photo by Elin Lindstrom Claessen Properly composed treatment and refraining from cigarette consumption can significantly reduce the risk of ...

Just 12 weeks of aerobic and strength-based exercise reduces symptoms and levels of fatigue in patients with chronic kidney disease, ...

Kaiser Permanente researchers have received a major grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine the role of ...

Credit: Caron Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - Tragic miscarriages for a couple have led to a ...

SYRACUSE, NY (August 16, 2018) -- New research suggests that shifts in the bacteria within a child's mouth could provide ...

Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have discovered a plant-based food preservative that is more effective ...

Credit: Lou Corpuz-Bosshart / UBC The deadly Nipah virus and others like it assemble themselves in a much more haphazard ...

Credit: NIAID Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine developed by scientists ...

A new study suggests that long-term exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

An opt-out organ donation register is unlikely to increase the number of donations, according to a new study from Queen ...

Mathematics can help public health workers better understand and influence human behaviours that lead to the spread of infectious disease, ...

Credit: Nature Communications 3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to ...

Credit: Tyler Refsland, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Forests in the eastern United States may have had it easy ...

Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI A quick look at the fossil record shows that no species lasts forever. On average, most ...

Aggressive brain tumour cells taken from patients self-destructed after being exposed to a chemical in laboratory tests, researchers have shown. ...

Credit: Petersen et al., Sci. Adv. 2018 Years after the end of the Human Genome Project (HGP), which mapped the ...