We also know that obesity damages the tiny vessels supplying blood to the brain, and is a major cause of high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic inflammation, all of which have been repeatedly ...

Deep in the cave, across a hazardous path including deep pits, they have found broken stalagmites more than 1.5 kilometers (0 ...

As the world's aging population grows, and dementia, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis reach epidemic levels, people ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the 800-pound gorilla of large neutrino experiments. It has about 5,000 sensors that have ...

Researchers have grown mice with brains made partly of rat cells, allowing them to smell the world through another animal's neurological hardware.

But on the Sun, they usually can be found around the center of sunspot groups, where magnetic conditions are strong and large ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Earth's magnetic field nearly collapsed some 590 million years ago, presumably putting life on the planet's surface at risk ...

Humans are far from the only animal known to use nature as a medicine cabinet to soothe their pains and ailments.

There, in the permanent shadow facing away from its host star WASP-43, the skies of the gas giant also known as WASP-43b are ...

Rocks scrutinized by the Curiosity rover in an ancient, long-dried lakebed on Mars have revealed conditions likely to have ...

Fifth-generation or '5G' connectivity for cellular technology has only been the standard for networks for around five years, ...