We tend to overlook some bodily conditions and brush them off as nothing serious. However, a doctor’s visit may reveal a more serious truth, leaving a person in utter shock or relief. These people ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

Dandruff, a common scalp condition causing flaking and itching, can be effectively managed with zinc. Zinc pyrithione, a key ingredient in anti-dandruff shampoos, combats fungal overgrowth, regulates ...

Dandruff can be challenging, especially during the winter months. So, here are 8 dermatologist-recommended home remedies to treat dandruff effectively. Dandruff has a way of making itself cosy and ...

We have all been there, when that niggling feeling creeps back on to your scalp that you sooo badly want to scratch the hell out of but you just know that your shoulders will be flooded with what ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Humans kissed Neanderthals – and they liked it, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology have found evidence that ancient humans were smooching ...

In most aspects of life, being flaky has a negative connotation. No one wants to be that flaky friend—come on, commit to the plans you made. Dare I even mention flaky skin or flaky hair? Ugh, I'm ...

As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis on machine learning—because no one else was studying the topic, he recalled later.

Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...