Within quark-gluon plasma, strange quarks are readily produced through collisions between gluons.

Fragrances like rose scent can easily help to better consolidate memory during sleep.

Despite the perception that wild birds in farm fields can cause food-borne illness, a new study has found little evidence linking birds to E. coli, Salmonella and Campylobacter outbreaks.

Babies born with low birth weights are more likely to have poor cardiorespiratory fitness later in life than their normal-weight peers. New findings underscore the importance of prevention strategies to reduce low birth weights even among those carried to at term delivery.

The circadian clock system allows the organisms to adjust to periodical changes of geophysical time. Today, increasing evidence show that disturbances in our internal clocks stemming from frequent time zone changes, irregular working schedules or ageing, have a significant impact on the development of metabolic diseases including type-2 diabetes. Using a molecule extracted from lemon […]

Nearly 40 years ago, analog data tapes faithfully recorded intense seismic activity in the two months before the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State in May 1980. It took some lengthy and careful restoration efforts — including a turn in a kitchen oven for some of the tapes — to recover their […]

In a nationwide US survey of 21,678 US high school students, researchers found that nearly 75% of the students’ self-reported feelings related to school were negative.

Most people want to change an aspect of their personality, but left to their own devices, they may not be successful in changing, research shows.

Even a relatively short walk to find the nearest bicycle is enough to deter many potential users of bike sharing systems, new research suggests.