By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Analyzing nearly 11.5 million births across four decades, researchers use rigorous methods to show that fluoridated drinking water is not linked to lower birth weight. Study: ...

Aristotle Was Right: Virtue Really Does Make Life Better (Just Not How You’d Think) In A Nutshell Doing the right thing doesn ...

For years, the shingles shot has been framed as a way to avoid a brutal rash and nerve pain in later life. Now a large U.S.

People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past ...

Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

A measure of brain complexity, derived from magnetic stimulation and EEG, can effectively evaluate conscious processing in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

The menstrual cycle is a key physiological process in women: it impacts performance, neuromuscular control, metabolism, and ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission enables long-duration artificial solar eclipses in space, allowing continuous observation of the Sun’s ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine and their collaborators have found that newborns who receive surgery for a severe form of spina bifida are more likely to suffer from breathing disruptions during sleep ...

Jeanne Villepreux-Power created the first scientific aquarium to study marine life live. Her invention disproved long-held myths and shaped modern marine biology despite her being overlooked.

This week, Mad in America examines research around increased suicide risk in children and adolescents related to bullying in high-school and the use of Recent studies examine how bullying, social ...