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A fitness trend known as Japanese walking is capturing attention online, promising major health benefits with minimal ...

Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, it may also give older women a better chance of ...

In recent years, an increasing number of scientific investigations have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease may not be merely a condition of an aging brain, but the product of infection ...

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Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed ...

The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

There's something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn's largest moon: rather than staying constantly ...

A woman in Texas has died from a rare brain infection after flushing her nose with water stored in the tank of a recreational ...