During the Last Glacial Maximum, tropical regions with lush vegetation would have looked completely different. The last Ice Age reached its peak about 20,000–21,000 years ago, and massive ice sheets ...

A research team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), the University of Michigan School of Nursing and Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health has been ...

the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging — has chosen XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, of Rush University as the 2011 recipient of the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for ...

What: NASA plans to launch its new Space 365 App this Friday at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Space 365 offers quick access to NASA events and quirky trivia facts that happened each day of the year.

Many pregnant women around the world are low in vitamin D. This is a very common issue that has prompted inquiries over the ...

Researchers used to think that HIV and its relatives were pretty recent things, maybe only a few hundred years old. But a ...

Ever wonder who you mimic in a line of people heading for an exit? In an emergency, do you trail the person right ahead, or ...

Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering. Electromagnetism has ...

Cities from Paris to Prague have sweltered under record-breaking heat waves in recent years. In fact, Western Europe's average summer temperature has climbed by roughly 2.3°C since 1980, about triple ...

The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...

For a flat sea creature just a few millimeters across, a gentle poke is instantly recognized as danger. Trichoplax adhaerens—a translucent blob with no head, brain or muscles—scuttles away in seconds ...

For decades, research has linked coffee consumption to longer life and lower risk of chronic disease—but exactly how those benefits occur has remained unclear. Now, new research from the Texas A&M ...