Many pharmaceutical drugs come with an ominous list of risks, but the devil is in the details. How likely and dangerous are the side effects, and how do those hazards compare with whatever treatment ...

Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be 'firestarters' for new human life, new research finds.

Power-hungry data centers run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes.

Pieces of bacteria migrating from the gut to the brain may play a key role in sleep, scientists have discovered, suggesting that the oldest and most basic microorganisms in our bodies are crucial in ...

One of the newest studies shows lymph nodes help maintain a special type of immune cell called "CD8 positive T cells", which can destroy cancer cells. These immune cells are primed and kept ready to ...

The Turkana people of Northwest Kenya have adapted to one of the driest places on Earth by relying predominantly on the milk, meat, and blood from their herds of camels and goats.

A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ...

A team of researchers from Florida International University (FIU) examined a brain protein previously associated with brain inflammation in Alzheimer's patients, in an effort to gain a deeper ...

Higher concentrations of a specific protein in urine may be a predictor for developing dementia, based on a large, recently published study by researchers from the Netherlands and Sweden.  Albumin is ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that flared to life, clearing the fog of ...

Tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found.

For most of these trace elements, decades of research have shown they are genuinely essential for health. Iron, for example, is essential for carrying oxygen in your blood, and many proteins – complex ...