Childhood abuse leaves a scar on the brain, a new neuroimaging study led by UCLA psychologists has shown. The researchers found associations between the severity of different maltreatment exposures an ...

Popular culture often depicts people with psychopathy as cold, emotionless and hollow, but a recent University of Mississippi study found that the language associated with psychopathic traits is more ...

A new study seeks to challenge the conventional view of a honey bee colony. By viewing colonies as superorganisms, the fundamental biology of the honey bee colony is redefined. These insights ma ...

For some reason, hurricanes are terrified of South America. In fact, as long as we’ve been keeping track, it’s only EVER been ...

People who are overweight or obese when they are diagnosed with dementia are likely to live longer than those in a normal weight range, according to a new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer&r ...

It is that time of year again, when the Twitter crowd erupts about “Who is going to win the Nobel Prize this year?” Unfortunately, there seems to be a real disconnect between the process, ...

Do you know what is most fascinating about tanning? Our skin is literally changing its biology because it has been exposed to ultraviolet radiation, and somehow we decided that ...

The truth is out there – but identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), have identified the ...

Every extra walk to school, kickabout in the park or trip to the shops could be doing more for teenage mental health than ...

We appear to be close to semi- or fully sentient A.I. So far, there has been little to no consideration of what these A.I.

For more than 70 years, fusion energy researchers have used a particular equation to judge whether a plasma would stay hot and dense enough — for long enough — to reach a point where it co ...