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Kids who are thumb-suckers or nail-biters are less likely to develop allergic sensitivities, new research has found. Credit: © chetbox/ Flickr Children who are thumb-suckers...

University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people’s later happiness levels. To be published shortly in the prestigious...

Outdoor learning can have a significant and positive impact on children's quality of life but needs to be introduced more formally into global school...

A new meta-analysis in Biological Psychiatryreports that sleep disturbances and long sleep duration are associated with increases in markers of inflammation. "It is important to...

At the poles of Ceres, scientists have found craters that are permanently in shadow (indicated by blue markings). Such craters are called "cold traps"...

Aalto University scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection. The record was made using a partially...

Bright noctilucent or night shining clouds are not familiar sights from northern France. But these electric-blue waves coursed through skies over the small town...

Norms of domestic organization vary substantially among the world's cultural groups. For the global sample of societies in D-PLACE, a nearly equal number tend...

The green-labelled cells show a basal cell carcinoma in mouse tail epidermis derived from a single mutant stem cell and expanding out of the...

Blue dots on this map indicate sites of recurring slope lineae (RSL) in part of the Valles Marineris canyon network on Mars. RSL are...

The color red is usually associated with inducing compliant behavior with stop signs, warning lights and corrections on a graded assignment. What if this color...