The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ground, with longer legs and shorter arms emerging (the name translates to ...

Data centers need water to stay cool and functional, and lots of it: The larger facilities can consume as much water a day as a town of 50,000 people, and because much of the cooling involves ...

Obesity is associated with a huge range of serious health problems, raising your risk of heart disease, multiple cancers, and overall mortality.

The Universe, according to theory at least, should not exist. Every particle in the Universe has a corresponding antimatter counterpart. Should ever a pair of such particles meet, they would ...

Over 30 percent of Americans believe in the concept of reincarnation, the notion that people who die will be reborn again in ...

Many people with depression don't respond to existing treatments, and scientists think it might be because of the many different routes people can take to arrive at the same depressive symptoms.

To us mortals, the flow of time goes one way. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to come, and no matter how precisely and faithfully a clock marks the passing seconds, we can never return to a moment ...

Your dreams may not foretell the future, but the way that your heart falls asleep just might. Researchers have now shown that in the early stages of sleep, as the nervous system undergoes rapid ...

A little-known treatment for heart failure, developed more than half a century ago and refined in the '70s, may have legs as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's patients.

For more than 80 years, a manuscript penned by one of the founders of quantum physics has been gathering dust in an Austrian library. Now brought to light by physics historian Flavio Del Santo of the ...

You settle onto the couch after a tiring day, and your cat curls up beside you, resting its head against your hand. Its warm fur and purring are familiar parts of your bond. How that connection ...

The blood vessels feeding your brain can sustain damage without an obvious warning. Scientists have now linked higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods to signs of that damage in middle-aged adults, ...