A spit test may one day be able to diagnose autism according to researchers at Clarkson University and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Study finds link between relative lengths of index and ring fingers in men and behaviour towards women

A new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterise the human brain.

Unlike other drug addictions, there are no pharmacological treatments for cocaine dependence. According to Arizona State University School of Life Sciences professor Janet Neisewander, it’s because cocaine addiction is tricky.

Game apps rapidly provide inexpensive, continuous sources of data for experiments.

Consider how your perceptions may affect this year's resolutions

Iowa State professor using science to improve interrogations.

A group of researchers studying the roots of depression has developed a test that leads them closer to the idea that depression may actually be an adaptation meant to help people cope with complex problems such as chronic illnesses or marriage breakups.

Job authority increases symptoms of depression among women, but decreases them among men, according to a new study from University of Texas at Austin sociologist Tetyana Pudrovska.

For answers, researchers turned to mice, stem cells, and the “tooth fairy”

Genes active in the brain implicated in differences in rats selected for aggression or tameness

Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, University of Kentucky, and University of Maryland found that for people 60 and older who do not have dementia, light alcohol consumption during late life is associated with higher episodic memory — the ability to recall memories of events.