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Researchers now believe raw-meat-based pet food should be labeled extremely dangerous.
New research shows protein synthesis is 40 greater post-workout when eating the whole egg. 
Amid all the troubling stats about flu season, here's a little bit of positive news from Georgia State University.
This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution.
Before you reach for another glass of warm milk, read this. 
The benefits of controlled psilocybin use and spiritual practice on people's well-being long outlast the high, researchers find.
Researchers in Mexico discover the longest underwater cave system in the world that's full of invaluable artifacts. 
Researchers find an unexpected side effect of rising carbon dioxide levels in a remote tropical forest. 
What does it really mean when something is "Dickensian"? Or "Kafkaesque"? Sometimes these words are overused to the point where they lose their meaning. Here's how these and 6 other words got their origin. 
An hour away from Area 51 in the Nevada desert, this solar power plant "banks" energy in a way that could be replicated across the world. 
Scientists can now virtually reconstruction certain long-dead individuals, without the need for DNA samples from physical remains.
Another week, another wild round of comments from our Facebook audience. Some made us laugh. Some made us cry. Here's the best of the week. 
What do our future missions in physics, astronomy, astrophysics and more hold? If you went back in time just 30 years, the world as we it was a completely different place. […]
A new study find a connection between having more testosterone and not liking classical, jazz, or avant-garde music. 
Three questions for the designer of a video game in line with the times. 
Archeologists find the largest frozen Scythian burial site ever found in Siberia.
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough […]
People think that stereotypes are true but also that it is not acceptable to admit this and therefore say they are false. Moreover, they say this to themselves too, in inner speech.
A new law in Germany seeks to close the gender pay gap, but it could ultimately prove counterproductive.