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Scientists dial in on some factors that make people prone to heart attacks.
States with higher gun ownership had much higher rates of domestic gun homicides. There were no "significant differences for nondomestic firearm homicide rates,” the authors add.
Please don't litter cigarette butts!
It definitely can't hurt your chances.
It's adorable and quite harmless.
Are you using water sustainably?
Drug overdosing is still a huge healthcare problem in the US -- but at least there now seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.
Money always talks -- and it's talking renewable.
Magnets used to be rigid -- not anymore.
Fake meat is not just a fad.
Do you think it was tasty, too?
They track the CO2 you breathe out.
Who's 'we' though?
Probably the largest genocide you probably haven't heard about.
During the Cold War the United States dropped nearly 70 nuclear bombs on some tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific.
The "me, me, me generation" is not necessarily less charitable than the generations before it.
Climate change is a major threat, but it doesn't tell the whole story.
It doesn't necessarily have to be red wine...
The rich get richer -- but they think the game is fair.
If you're allergic to bee venom, this vaccine is for you.
In the future, installing Elon Musk brain-computer interface could be as easy laser eye surgery.
"As humans, we know we need to strive to maintain a healthy weight, but for cats, there has not been a clear definition of what that is. We simply didn't have the data," the authors say.
Since 2015, Iceland has planted around 1,000 hectares of forest (between three and four million trees).
Scientists are getting closer to revealing the timeline of HIV evolution.
There are sex differences that may make women more vulnerable to Alzheimer's.
Myth: busted.
The 5,000-year-old structures have baffled historians for centuries. However, it looks like one piece of the puzzle might have come together.
Every once in a while, a scientific matter will spill into the courtroom — this is the case with the “dueling dinosaurs” fossil.
A weird-looking new duck-billed dinosaur was found in Texas.
Scientists envision using a very thin material to build a huge greenhouse on Mars.
The first images of spooky action at a distance.
How hot will your area be in 2050?
"We now have a pathogen whose molecular history we can follow for thousands of years," says paper co-author McCormick. "The jury's out, evidence is accumulating, and we're all going to learn as we go forward."
"In the future, we might also adapt dietary regimens for insect rearing in order to increase their antioxidant content for animal or human consumption," say the authors.
A group of researchers at NASA is preparing for the final steps to launch the Española chile pepper into space in November.
A worthy recognition for one of the world's greatest scientists.
Healthy body, healthy mind.
No one: The internet: Let's storm Area 51!
"Happy"
"We are incredibly excited about this first discovery on the road to realizing the goals of the Harnessing Plants Initiative," the authors say.
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
The bird's hyper-elongated third toe is longer than its whole lower leg, the authors report.
It's a remarkable achievement.
It could teach us a thing or two about how flying emerged, too.
Tiny sleepy fish sleep remarkably similar to humans.
Was this an isolated individual, or part of an earlier wave of human migration?
Rats with artificially-reduced ghrelin signaling showed impaired performance in an episodic memory task.
Veggie burgers -- yay or nay?
A clever device runs at the fringe of physics to solve our wasted energy problems.
Everybody seems to be running from the heat this summer.
