Artists who paint with their feet because they were born without arms have individualized areas of the brain assigned to each of their toes, a trait not found in handed people, scientists have reported. "We're trying to find the relationship between behavior and how that shapes representations in our brain," co-author Daan Wesselink told AFP, specifically the somatosensory...

A stunning harvest moon will rise in the eastern sky on Friday the 13th. It's also a micromoon, too, which means it's an unusually small full...

A new large-scale European study has found that carrying visceral fat, which is the fat stored around the organs in the belly and around the intestines, appears to be a major risk factor for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease, especially among women. Carried out by researchers from Uppsala University, the new study looked at over 325,000 participants taking part in UK Biobank, a large...

Nations rich and poor must invest now to protect against the effects of climate change or pay an even heavier price later, a global commission warned Tuesday. Spending $1.8 trillion across five key areas over the next decade would not only help buffer the worst impacts of global warming but could generate more than $7 trillion in net benefits, the report from the Global Commission on Adaptation...

A preliminary new study has found that having high blood pressure later in life may speed up cognitive decline, but treating the condition may also help slow it down. The researchers interviewed each of the study participants about their high blood pressure treatment and asked them to perform cognitive tests, such as recalling words as part of a memory quiz. High blood pressure was defined as...

It was a good attempt that was sabotaged due to really bad...

Fifty years ago, a Princeton physicist named Gerard O'Neill asked his students to help him come up with a plan for setting up settlements in space. Just a few years later, O'Neill published the resulting vision for freestanding space colonies as a book titled "The High Frontier" — a book that helped inspire Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' vision of having millions of people...

The greater health risk in shorter individuals is likely linked to higher liver fat content, and a larger number of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, the authors speculated. It has also been reported that insulin sensitivity and the functioning of special cells in the pancreas that secrete the hormone are better in taller people. People with diabetes have excessively high...