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In the first study of its kind, public health researchers show that young adults who reported having negative experiences on Facebook -- including bullying,...

An acceleration in obesity among young teenagers could be explained by a 12-year-long study which found that the number of calories they burn while...

Hubble Space Telescope Observation of the central region of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6101: Compared to the majority of Galactic globular clusters, NGC...

Picture a little boy imitating his father shaving in the mirror or a little girl wobbling proudly in her mother's high heels. From infancy, we...

Method sees through camouflage to reveal fake followers, reviewers An algorithm developed at Carnegie Mellon University makes it easier to determine if someone has faked...

China's Grain-for-Green Program, the world's largest reforestation effort, has transformed 69.2 million acres of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest. Yet, the program...

The glycemic index of a given food, a value that aims to quantify how fast blood sugar rises after eating it, can vary by...

Unique protein markers in hair could be used alongside DNA profiling for human identification, according to a study published September 7, 2016 in the...

This is a picture of the Acanthostega fossil.Credit: Jennifer CLack This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden,...

Andrew Wetzel's simulation shows stars in the Milky Way-like galaxy on the left and the same region's dark matter on the right. Image is...

An illustration of a smartphone hacking a 3-D printer. Credit: Wenyao Xu. The ubiquity of smartphones and their sophisticated gadgetry make them an ideal tool...