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In the past when most Ghanaians lived in rural areas, most would typically consult an elder, a respected member of the family, or someone of good social standing in their community when they faced problems in their life. ...

Human beings used to be defined as "the tool-maker" species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s when Dr. Jane Goodall discovered that chimpanzees will pick and modify grass stems to use to ...

Taking up exercise is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions for people wanting to improve their health. But our research shows that the benefits of older people going to exercise groups go beyond self-improvement ...

All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and night. The details differ between plants, fungi, bacteria and animals, but the consistent feature is ...

Wouldn't it be fascinating to live in New York and London at the same time? In the standard of everyday life, this is equivalent to daydreaming or sheer fantasy. Nevertheless, this is a perfectly normal phenomenon in quantum ...

Imagine that you've had a heated argument with a co-worker, and you call up your husband or wife to talk about it. Your partner can react in one of two ways.

Lithium-ion batteries have changed the world. Without the ability to store meaningful amounts of energy in a rechargeable, portable format we would have no smartphones or other personal electronic devices. The pioneers of ...

Conservationists don't always agree about the best ways to reinforce the protection of nature. Debates about it can become confrontational.

Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare "tsunami earthquake" occurs. These are mysterious because, while they're just medium-sized as earthquakes go, they cause disproportionately large and devastating ...

As wind and solar energy have become cheaper, they've become a more prominent and important way to generate clean electricity in most parts of the world.

Researchers from the Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin and the State University of Campinas, have ...

Hydrogel materials possess intrinsic softness, and exhibit other favorable properties of natural organic parts, like stretchability, biocompatibility, permeability and stimuli-adaptability, owing to their diversified family. ...