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Obesity relapse is common, and research indicates it's more than a matter of willpower. Fat cells retain a 'memory' of ...

Ever wondered where in the world your backyard was, within the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea? Now, you can find out for ...

You've probably seen it on social media before: a paragraph of scrambled text that looks like nonsense at first glance, yet ...

Despite outward appearances, the internal workings of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune are extremely chaotic.

Pancreatic cancer is on course to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the US by 2030, in part because 85 ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...

More than 40,000 years ago, the European continent was home to two human lineages: our direct ancestors, Homo sapiens, and ...

It's easy to see your body aging on the outside – wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang – but as we grow older, ...

Yawning has an unusual and unexpected effect on the flow of fluid protecting the brain, a recent study reveals, though it's ...

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, ...

A woman's breast tissue undergoes dramatic changes as it ages, creating an environment where cancer cells are more likely to ...