There may be another reason that you might want to stick to healthy foods. Scientists have found that eating highly processed foods like chocolate, pizza and French fries can lead to addictive eating.
Parenting responsibility is rarely equal, and that's true across species. Now, scientists have taken a closer look to find out why that is, and why babies are only largely cared for by one parent.
Scientists may have brought a dead fjord back to life. They installed pumps in a Swedish fjord that showed a strong oxygen deficit and now, they've reported that oxygen-loving organisms have returned to the region.
Scientists have called the rise of the tiger population into question by pointing out flaws in a method that's common used in censuses of tigers.
Researchers have made some new findings which may help detect breast cancer in women. After a worldwide study of the DNA of 100,000 women, scientists have discovered two new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
Scientists are learning a bit more about abrupt climate shifts. They examined African lake sediments from the past 20,000 years in order to advance their understanding of current changing weather patterns and what we might expect in the future.
It turns out that there may be a link between lower IQ and increased drinking among young adult men.
Greenland is melting, so what does this mean for the future? In order to find out, a team of scientists looked to the past and quantified how the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to a warm period that occurred 8,000 to 5,000 years ago.
Scientists have taken a closer look at the functioning of both old and new cities and have found that ancient human settlements worked in much the same way as modern ones.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed picture yet of a large, edge-one, dusty disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star, Beta Pictoris. The new image reveals a bit more about this star and the disk that surrounds it.
Scientists have uncovered an entirely new species of seadragon. While researching two known species of seadragons in an effort to understand and protect these fish, researchers uncovered a third, unknown species.
Coral reefs may not be in such dire straits as researchers once thought. Scientists have found that corals may be better equipped to tolerate climate change than previously believed.
