A unique study has thrown fascinating new light on how young children begin to understand the meaning of words.

Why is human culture -; the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -; so much more powerful than animal cultures?

At the center of this fight is how the FDA regulates a possible "functional cure" for Type 1 diabetes and determines who gets ...

Adding 5 minutes of exercise to your day could be helpful in lowering blood pressure, a study found. But you may need to do ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Hope makes people mentally tougher. So does helping others. Service gives our lives a sense of meaning, and meaning, a ton of research shows, makes us both happier and more able to cope with ...

The removal of the long-standing language on marriage is largely symbolic since the U.S. Supreme Court already legalized same ...

Family rituals improve the holidays. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. 2016;1(4). doi:10.1086/688495 Tilburg WAP, Sedikides C, Wildschut T, Vingerhoets AJJM. How nostalgia infuses life ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

An international survey involving over 1,600 biomedical researchers has shed light on the perceived causes of ...

The NIH’s current system for funding scientific research perpetuates health disparities by privileging established, well-resourced institutions and reinforcing an individual-level focus on disease ...

Type 1 diabetes (also known as diabetes mellitus) is an autoimmune disease in which immune cells attack and destroy the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. The loss of insulin leads to the ...