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When a postdoc in Barcelona first looked through the microscope and saw bright, spherical clusters, no one expected they...

Horace Fletcher once chewed a scallion 722 times before swallowing. He believed food should be almost liquid before it s...

A routine blood glucose reading may reveal more than your diabetes risk—it could hint at how fast your brain is aging. A...

They leave the hospital with food on their plates and rules in their heads. Yet too many return within months. About 40 ...

Depression may wear two very different faces. One shows up tired and heavy. The other is restless and lean. Which one yo...

She went back to her garden. Slowly at first, then with the same careful pleasure she had before the pain took over. Cyn...

Think Alzheimer’s always starts with forgetting names and places? That’s the story we tell. New work from Texas A&M ...

One injection. Three months of protection. And for a small number of women, a question that has echoed through courtroom...

A tiny, naturally occurring mouse virus can create damage that looks eerily like Parkinson's — and the harm hangs around...

Some families seem to carry a secret clock that ticks more slowly. Diseases show up years later. Minds stay sharp. Joint...

Imagine a hidden plumbing network inside your skull, only active at night, flushing away the cellular detritus of daily ...

Imagine a blood test showing half the testosterone your grandfather carried. Startling, right? That is the signal emergi...

Imagine standing at a crossroads with two signs: one promises a lower chance of heart attack, the other warns of muscle ...

Picture a 75-year-old who still lifts boxes without wincing, remembers names at family dinners, and walks uphill without...

Think video games are just a time sink? Many scientists now urge a second look. A new, wide-ranging review suggests that...

Picture this: a single, painless brush along the inside of the cheek, and an answer arrives within the hour. No scalpel....

Imagine a library where the books fall apart from the spine first — the words remain, but the structure that holds them ...

What if the tiny spots on your skin were whispering secrets about cancer risks? Researchers at QIMR Berghofer have just ...

Imagine sprinting, jumping, or hauling a heavy bag of groceries with the same ease you had in your thirties. It sounds l...

She walked into the emergency department dizzy, sweating, and clutching a pain that started near her shoulder blade and ...