Vitamin C is one of the most iconic nutrients in popular health culture, often credited with preventing colds, boosting immunity, and even fighting serious diseases.

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Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, structured, and geometrical in their thinking some 60,000 years ago, according to some intricately engraved ostrich eggshells found across southern Africa.

When certain gut microbes were transferred to mice, scientists later detected the bacteria in the gut and brain, but nowhere else in the body.

A coffee hit might be more commonly associated with increased alertness, but a new study shows that it could also help lower the risks of developing anxiety and depression – and there's actually a ...

A new immunotherapy drug has demonstrated early promise in a recent prostate cancer clinical trial. The drug, called VIR-5500, is a "masked T-cell engager". This type of immunotherapy ignites our own ...

After 88 years, the world's longest study on happiness is still going strong. In 1938, scientists at Harvard University put ...

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill.

A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey.

The cannabis plant contains two powerful compounds that may reverse fatty liver disease in mice without causing any ...

It's been known for some time that psychological stress can make eczema (atopic dermatitis) worse, but it hasn't been clear ...

Worldwide peanut production results in more than 10 million tons of waste piling up each year in the form of discarded shells – but now scientists have discovered a method of turning this biomass into ...