Verena Schuenemann at the Palaeogenetics Laboratory, University of Tuebingen. Credit: Johannes Krause An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and...
London in the present day. Research shows that the Great Smog event of 1952 in London likely still affects some people's health more than 60 years later. London still has smoggy days today. Credit: © barnyz / Flickr London's Great Smog...
There is heightened concern that exercise deficits are contributing to the growing obesity epidemic, particularly among children and teens. Credit: © rodjulian / Fotolia Physical activity among children and teens is lower than previously thought, and, in another surprise finding, young...
Every year as mosquito season arrives, so does West Nile virus, causing fever in thousands of people nationwide and life-threatening brain infections in an unlucky few. About half the people who survive that infection -- West Nile encephalitis --...
One hour of physical activity per day could offset health risk of 8 hours of sitting. Image Credit: Flickr/Yuichi Sakuraba The health risks associated with sitting for eight or more hours a day - whether at work, home or commuting...
More than 2 billion children and adults suffer from health problems related to being overweight or obese, finds a new study. Credit: © Maya Kruchancova / Fotolia Globally, more than 2 billion children and adults suffer from health problems related to...
Pollution haze over South East London, through a window in a viewing area of the 95-storey skyscraper The Shard, the tallest building in Britain, in London, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. The London mayor's office says the city is experiencing...
When stripes flash beneath the dish, the tadpole swims faster, so long as the stripes are really obvious. If they are faint, but they are paired with another faint stimulus such as touch or sound, the tadpole will be...
Study participants in a series of experiments conducted by Cameron Anderson, a professor of management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Aaron Lukaszewski, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, overwhelmingly equated physical strength with higher status...
This is a computed tomography (CT scan) of right humerus. Left image shows a horizontal slice through the cancerous lesion. Credit: Nicole Guzmán-Smith A new report by Smithsonian archaeologists and colleagues in the International Journal of Paleopathology identifies a bone tumor...
Pregnant women in Latin American countries were more likely to seek an abortion after receiving health alerts about Zika virus, according to a study co-authored by Princeton University researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers...