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New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.

You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.

Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

Jokes so cheesy even French philosophers will love them.

Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.

The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.

Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.

The study was small and didn’t include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.

The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.

Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.

The researchers and patients are excited to see if color vision will develop over time.

Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.

Neuroscience research suggests it might be time to rethink our ideas about when exactly a child becomes an adult.

Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s are also found in Down syndrome patients.

Here are five things to know before conducting a training evaluation.

The two-year pilot program will be a test of harm reduction strategies.

When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.

It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.

HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.

If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.

The antibodies elicited by the “S2 vaccine” not only neutralize COVID’s multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.

Let’s hope that squid don’t evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.

A clever neuroscience experiment shows that the “other-race effect” is likely due to a lack of experience and perceptual expertise rather than racism.

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.

One patient’s surprising results have experts cautiously optimistic.

Cats know more than they let on.

Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.

Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.