39 healthy university students perform one muscle contraction at maximum effort for three seconds per day, for 5 days a week over 4 weeks.

Cancer patients rarely die from the primary tumor but rather from the metastases – even after successful tumor surgery.

Both hot and cold environments trigger a stress response in the human body and can lead to cardiovascular problems, new research finds.

Scientists has identified two types of obesity with physiological and molecular differences that may have lifelong consequences for health.

A new analysis offers the clearest picture yet of how various brain regions and neural networks contribute to a person’s problem-solving.

International team of researchers has identified DNA mutations in a gene that senses viral RNA, as a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus.

A new meta-analysis of 28 randomized controlled trials has now strengthened the notion that supplementing zinc could prevent symptoms.

The fusion of myoblasts could make it possible to repair muscles damaged by diseases such as muscular dystrophy.

A world-first study has confirmed the link between the two, which could lead to earlier detection and new potential treatments.

Sliding on ice is a familiar experience. Faraday hypothesized that ice forms spontaneously a thin quasi-liquid layer on its surface.

Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the rise of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.

New measurements show that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known galaxies.

Australia, home to the most unusual animal species on the planet, can now lay claim to being the wellspring of modern mammal evolution.

One characteristic of cancer cells is their high adaptability to different environments in the body and to drug treatments.

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a predictor of blood lipid — or cholesterol — status for midlife women.

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time one way that a small molecule turns a single cell into something as large as a tree.

Intense aerobic exercise increases the glucose (sugar) consumption of internal organs, thereby reducing the availability of energy to tumors

A study measuring the sleep patterns of students has turned up some surprises about how and when our bodies tell us to sleep.

Treatment for the condition has improved in recent years — and a new Edith Cowan study has found how to make it even more effective.