The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

More U.S. children have been drowning in recent years. “When drowning occurs, seconds matter,” said Dr. Rohit Shenoi, the ...

The short lifespan of the turquoise killifish (N. furzeri) makes it an important model organism for aging research. However, its husbandry and breeding present research institutions with challenges: ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Due to record heat, European hotels are implementing creative measures like offering chilled water, adjusting service hours, ...

The extreme heat has been causing delays for rail systems up and down the east coast this week, and Metro isn’t totally immune, but the transit system is doing everything it can to mitigate issues.

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

As Europe contends with record-breaking heat this summer, hotels across the Continent are adjusting everything from pool ...

In honor of the U.S. Semiquincentennial, a recent poll asked Americans what the United States has done best since declaring ...

We took a podiatrist's recommendations and ran, well, walked with them. We tested over 25 pairs from top brands like ...