Numerous studies have shown that exercise lowers blood pressure, but the 2021 research suggests that "maintaining physical ...

When the researchers boosted production of one of these transcription factors in the liver cells of elderly mice, they noticed numerous benefits: fat and scarring were significantly reduced, and ...

We know what will happen to the Sun and our Solar System because we can look outward into the galaxy and examine older Sun-like stars in their evolutionary end states.

An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1 ...

As we age, the immune system gradually declines in function, leaving the body more vulnerable to disease. Scientists have discovered a new way to rejuvenate a key component of immune function, ...

High blood sugar spikes after meals could be a contributing factor to Alzheimer's risk, according to a new study that gives ...

When someone is affected by a stroke, the standard treatment to restore blood flow to the brain can both save their life and cause additional damage – damage which a new, injectable nanomaterial ...

"Size matters" sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle.

Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks, and utility workers nervously watched forecasts Thursday ...