Researchers have introduced a framework, 'Responsibility Exchange Theory,' for understanding why thanking and apologizing, as well as bragging and blaming, matter so much, and presents novel..

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a new method of statistical analysis, researchers have discovered the taste center in the human brain by uncovering which parts of the brain dist..

Scientists have determined the amount of human-made carbon dioxide emissions taken up by the ocean between 1994 and 2007.

Over the last 540 million years, the Earth has weathered three major ice ages — periods during which global temperatures plummeted, producing extensive ice sheets and glaciers that have stretched bey..

At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports.

As we develop extremely liquid repellent surfaces, the errors in existing measurement techniques are getting too large.

Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures for detecting cholera has come under question. Researchers investigated this claim using a 'vaccine probe' analysis of a completed..

Sub-vocalization, the silent, preparatory muscle movements of the face and larynx that result when singers run a song through their heads prior to vocalizing, could be nudging them out of tune, accord..

For two decades, Nicaragua and El Salvador have seen increasing mortality from an unusual form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), also called Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN). The disease has disproportio..

Cytochrome c is a small enzyme that plays an important role in the production of energy by mitochondria. It is also involved in signaling dangerous problems that warrant apoptosis, or programmed cell ..