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Pregnant women have experienced exotic food cravings since recorded history began. This may be why.

An MRI changes whether a biopsy is needed and where the needles go. Is there a reason they aren't used more often?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in hospitals are a worry but a new program implemented in 106 intensive care units (ICUs) and 87 non-ICUs at 94 hospitals caused cases to plummet.

A new paper posits that we may have taken over the world due to a mobility advantage; heel-and-toe walking.

A new paper believes that in an already seismically active Arctic region, permafrost degradation can weaken the ice that helps to bind fractures within rock.

Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape.

A “racing heart,” “choked up” - language treats emotion and thought as if they inhabit the body. But why are events of the mind felt in the heart or stomach?

Metabolites associated with earlier or later death in dogs behave in much the same way they have been shown in humans.

Intermittent fasting, and fasting in general, has been a popular fad health gimmick, but the science isn't on its side. Instead, proponents believe mice are little people so if mice weaned on starvation diets lived longer, people would also.

Legacy hybrid corn breeding may be about to hit a crippling genetic roadblock.

The USDA Organic certification was a mandate from the Clinton administration to create a way for his constituents in the organic food space to market their product as distinct from conventional food.

We contain evidence of biological ghosts we know nothing about. They only haunt our DNA.