In an unusual study, Norwegian scientists claim people born during periods of solar calm may live around five years longer than those born when the su...
I oversee the team that puts together the Fortune 40 Under 40 list, our once-a-year ranking of the most influential people in business under age 40 (h...
FOR some people in this world, the glass always seems to be half-full. For others it is half-empty. But how someone comes to have a sunny disposition ...
A new study has found that people who like stimulating their taste buds with meals such as a vindaloo curry also have risk-taking personalities.Resear...
Money really does grow on trees - at least in Australia.Scientists have found gold in the leaves of eucalyptus trees.The particles are much too small ...
A growing number of academic researchers are mining social media data to learn about both online and offline human behavior. In recent years, studies ...
In the city that never sleeps, it's easy to overlook the insects underfoot. But that doesn't mean they're not working hard. A new study fr...
A team of Chinese and Italian scientists has joined efforts to provide a key to the understudied phaleratus group of blister beetles. During their res...
Using mathematical modeling, researchers at New York and Vanderbilt universities have shown that commensal bacteria that cause problems later in life ...
The quality of the colon mucus in mice depends on the composition of gut microbiota, reports a Swedish-Norwegian team of researchers from the Universi...