This age-old connection, based on the notion that celestial forces affect our physical being, provides intriguing ...

A research team identified the brain's food-specific memory system and its direct role in ... profoundly impacting food intake and body weight. Can memory influence what and how much we eat?

A Los Angeles family in the Palisades Highlands shared this week how they used their swimming pool, a generator, sprinkler, pump and a fire hose to save their house from the wildfires, which have ...

Why we have body parts we don't need is simple. According to the Harvard Health website, they were most likely necessary at one point but eventually became nonessential through evolution.

Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people across ...

Do people across cultures and throughout history agree on which body parts are more or less valuable? Until now, no one had systematically tested whether body parts are valued similarly across ...

Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people ...

The carbon that is a key component of the human body—and all other lifeforms on Earth—may have traveled outside the galaxy after being created before returning on a cosmic "conveyor belt," an ...

Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.