New science found menopause changes the heart at a genetic level and HRT may offer more protection than previously thought.

Psychology offers both descriptive and analytical accounts of human experience and behavior. Science champions the latter.

Ebola is a group of viruses – we call it a genus – that has several species. Bundibugyo is just one of them. It was first ...

In Finland, researchers wanted to test a simple idea: what happens to kids' health if you swap out the pavement, gravel, and ...

One-third of people with anorexia nervosa don’t recover and treatment has remained stagnant for years. Now we’re beginning to ...

Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence ...

In February 1959, a group of hikers died in the mountains. The events sparked theories both scientific and conspiratorial.

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Some people hear a persistent hum that nobody else notices. Researchers investigated the mystery and found a surprising ...

A missed shot turned into a math problem, and that shift appears to have mattered. In an eight-week program linking ...

Experts have long wondered if phones played a role in the birthrate decline — which began in 2007, the same year that Apple ...