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The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

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I have always had a bias towards the Appeal to Nature Fallacy:An Appeal to Nature Fallacy happens when someone argues that ...

The recommended daily amount rises slightly for older adults, increasing from 15 micrograms per day to 20 mcg at age 71. One cup of fortified 2% milk contains 2.9 mcg of vitamin D, compared to 14.2 ...

A Louisville organization is fighting the problem one child at a time. "Child abuse will never go away until we really dig ...

In the first half of the course, students learned concepts like metabolic rate, or the amount of energy the body needs to ...

What if poor sleep was doing more than just making you tired? Researchers have discovered that disrupted sleep in older ...