People with blood type AB may be more likely to develop memory loss in later years than people with other blood types, according to a paper in Neurology, but what does that really mean? AB is the…

A pop song goes that rainy days and Mondays bring people down. There was always some truth to that and a new paper in JAMA quantifies the link between a lack of sunshine and suicide. The authors…

Gibbons are small, tree-living apes from Southeast Asia, many species of which are endangered. They are part of the same superfamily as humans and great apes, but sit on the divide between Old-World…

By tracking seismic shifts, researchers say they may be able to predict a major quake off the coast of Istanbul. When a segment of a major fault line goes quiet, it can mean one of two things - an…

Males get more diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders than females and it may be related to changes in the brain's estrogen signaling, writes a paper in Molecular Autism.  Autism Spectrum…

It's uncommon for there to be reanalyses of data from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) - once a product has failed, it isn't smart to keep putting more money into it. Some critics insist that…

The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters - balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back to the formation of the galaxy. In the constellation of Sagittarius (…

Like most young people, the first job is not the best job and they will often leave when a better opportunity comes along.  There is strong demand for nurses so it's no surprise that there is…

African American women and their female children have the highest obesity prevalence of any demographic group in the United States, and they are also most likely to underestimate their body weight,…

Before they reach young adulthood, many children in the United States will experience their parents separating, divorcing, finding another partner or getting remarried.  When families change…