The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are much more ambitious in terms of precision, and use atomic clocks to measure slices of time as ...

Psychopathy is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and it's not an official diagnosis any psychiatrist or psychologist will give. But the term is still widely used ...

While scientists are still continually learning what causes autism, there's already considerable evidence linking environmental exposures to the condition, in addition to genetic factors.

After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...

Most of us have heard of the Mediterranean diet and its many health benefits, but there's another European eating plan that could also help you live longer. It's called the Nordic diet, and it is ...

If you could peer inside a cell's nucleus, you would find DNA tightly packed into a remarkably small space. But that arrangement presents a puzzle: DNA molecules carry the same negative electrical ...

In a mountain village in the heart of Sardinia, Italy, something very special appears to be happening. On the same island, roughly 20 years ago, scientists identified the world's first so-called 'Blue ...

Giving a child a smartphone before age 13 could be risky for some aspects of their mental health. In a new study of nearly 9,000 adolescents in the US, researchers found that owning a smartphone at ...

Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies derived from one gene active in human brain cells appear to have taken that journey further: into a virus. Researchers found two ...

Definitions of health conditions matter, because they inform diagnosis, support, treatment, and future research. Dyslexia has just got its first official definition update in more than two decades, ...

Nobody likes the feeling of being constipated, but the consequences of being backed up might be more serious than you realize. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to get things moving again, and ...

A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI).