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Developmental research often tells us how ego centric children are. Yet all too often we hear of children who are forced to demonstrate great courage and care in in a crisis. The ongoing inquiry ...

Nearly a third of all U.S. households - 42.2 million - has a cat. Yet despite their prevalence, pet felines are the focus of persistent myths. As a team of Brazillian scientists noted in a paper ...

Cats may have a reputation for independence, but emerging research suggests we share a unique connection with them - fuelled by brain chemistry. The main chemical involved is oxytocin, often ...

A deeper reach into human history is now possible, thanks to a growing body of archaeological data collected using advanced technologies and patient scholarly detective work accumulated across ...

It's a common refrain: the world is more stressful, and humans are more stressed, than ever before. Commentators implicate a variety of causes: political instability, economic uncertainty, social ...

Every so often, a completely random advert stops me in my tracks and makes me wonder what on earth went on in the room where it was created. For me, that moment came this past weekend, courtesy of a ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...

Every day, American veterans return home with wounds we cannot see. Since 2000, more than 480,000 service members have sustained traumatic brain injuries, and more than 600,000 veterans live with ...

Hydrogen is often thought to be linchpin of a future 100% renewable economy. To make up for wind and solar's deal-breaking intermittency and to rid industry of energy-dense fossil fuels, the surplus ...

Robert Kennedy Jr. has probably had better afternoons than his fiery senate hearing earlier this month. The HHS Secretary was grilled on chaos at CDC after Director Susan Monarez's ousting, as ...