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Using DNA sequencing, researchers distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' strains of certain skin bacteria. The 'good' kind might be used to zap zits more effectively, they say.

Whether it’s a DIY Brazilian wax or a botched attempt at "manscaping," homegrown efforts to remove the hair down there are sending more people to emergency rooms, new research suggests.

...It turns out that extreme excitement and extreme anger look very similar. We believe we distinguish these feelings by gazing at people’s faces, reading them for subtle changes in emotion. But researchers recently found that people more accurately understand mood when they examine body language.

Scientists have identified four regions of DNA that play a major role in controlling animal behavior: telling a mouse how long a burrow to dig and whether to add an escape tunnel.

Beta blockers, a venerable class of blood pressure drugs that has fallen from favor in recent years, may help protect the aging brain against changes linked to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia that rob memory and mental function, new research indicates.

Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.

Brain cells that fire only when monkeys act unselfishly may provide clues to the neural basis of altruism, according to a new study.

Self-described neurotics who also have high levels of conscientiousness (organized, plan ahead, and are extremely self-controlled) experience lower levels of a disease-fighting biomarker, according to research.

New research suggests that the huge ice sheet there may be vulnerable to collapse, with potentially drastic effects on the sea level.

It may not look like a character from the Transformer franchise, but a tiny robot made in the US is able to change shape. Built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it uses magnets to mimic molecules that fold themselves into complex shapes.