A huge number of vehicular fatalities are people who aren't in cars at all. Pedestrians are dying more than they used to and more in America than other comparable parts of the world. Her ...

(via Big Think) "We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 ...

Scientists have engineered a monoclonal antibody that can protect mice from a lethal dose of influenza A, a new study shows.

New research shows that the gum disease bacterium P. gingivalis can slip into the bloodstream and infiltrate the heart. There ...

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Intermittent fasting is not only a useful tool for weight loss, it’s also shown to have many benefits for metabolic health – ...