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The verbal and physical signs of lying are harder to detect than people believe, a study suggests. Tests reveal that people are skilled at identifying commonly displayed cues -- such as hesitations and hand gestures -- but these signs...

Kerry Katona has joked her panellist job on 'Loose Women' ruined her marriage to Brian McFadden. The Atomic Kitten star, who was a panellist on the popular ITV daytime show from 2003 to 2004, returned to the show to celebrate...

Climate change is impacting the Caribbean, with millions facing increasing food insecurity and decreasing freshwater availability as droughts become more likely across the region, according to new Cornell University research in Geophysical Research Letters. Since 1950, the Caribbean region...

The term "latte liberal" has been a popular way to disparage American progressives as uppity and out of touch, but does a person's coffee preference really say something about his or her political ideology? According to a new study,...

Observations of Herring Gulls by scientists from the University of Southampton have shown how the coastal birds have developed complicated behaviour to 'skin' sea creatures to make them safe to eat. Researchers think this feeding habit may be...

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination -- with no hardware modifications needed. With the simple, scalable system,...

A new analysis published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment shows that the world's protected areas (PAs) are experiencing major shortfalls in staffing and resources and are therefore failing on a massive scale to safeguard...

Blue Lives Matter has announced a nationwide boycott against Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company Unilever. The law enforcement blog, Blue Lives Matter, called for a boycott of Ben & Jerry's. In a post, the blog author accuses the...

Headline issues, from immigration to sexual assault, are causing significant stress among members of Generation Z -- those between ages 15 and 21 -- with mass shootings topping the list of stressful current events, according to the American...

One hundred thousand residents of Flint, Michigan could only use water from bottles or filters during a years-long lead contamination crisis, which started when the city switched to a new drinking water source in 2014. As part of a...